By Khiara Bridges

ISBN-10: 0520268946

ISBN-13: 9780520268944

ISBN-10: 0520268954

ISBN-13: 9780520268951

Reproducing Race, an ethnography of being pregnant and beginning at a wide ny urban public health facility, explores the position of race within the clinical surroundings. Khiara M. Bridges investigates how race—commonly noticeable as organic within the scientific world—is socially built between ladies depending on the general public healthcare procedure for prenatal care and childbirth. Bridges argues that race contains strong fabric effects for those ladies even if it isn't explicitly named, exhibiting how they're marginalized by way of the practices and assumptions of the health facility employees. Deftly weaving ethnographic proof into broader discussions of Medicaid and racial disparities in child and maternal mortality, Bridges shines new mild at the politics of healthcare for the terrible, demonstrating how the "medicalization" of social difficulties reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the our bodies of terrible girls of color.

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