In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race

In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race (Critical Histories)
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Although it strikes individuals from a variety of backgrounds, sickle cell anemia has always been known as a "black" disease in America. In the Blood argues that ever since the discovery in 1910 and subsequent scientific analysis of the disease, sickle cell anemia has been manipulated to serve social ends-as a tool for securing white identity and a way to establish a hierarchy based on European heritage. Tapper shows how sickle cell anemia was used to promote the superiority of racial purity, to characterize the black body as contaminated, and even to support the notion that modern humans evolved from multiple origins.
Country USA
Brand University of Pennsylvania Press
Manufacturer University of Pennsylvania Press
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812234718
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Pennsylvania Press
Manufacturer	University of Pennsylvania Press
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812234718
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race (Critical Histories)