Alondra Nelson is associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she also holds an appointment in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is coeditor of Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life and Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History.
Contents
Preface: Politics by Other MeansAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations
Introduction: Serving the People Body and Soul1. African American Responses to Medical Discrimination before 1966 2. Origins of Black Panther Party Health Activism3. The People’s Free Medical Clinics4. Spin Doctors: The Politics of Sickle Cell Anemia5. As American as Cherry Pie: Contesting the Biologization of ViolenceConclusion: Race and Health in the Post Civil Rights Era
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Alondra Nelson is associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she also holds an appointment in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is coeditor of Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life and Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision between DNA, Race, and History.