Reproducing race
Subtitle: an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization
By: Khiara M. Bridges
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780520268944; 9780520268951
Subjects: Maternity services; Healthcare Disparities; Standards; Socioeconomic Factors; Discrimination in medical care; Minorities; Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.); Medical care; Municipal Hospitals; Prenatal Care; Hospitals; Maternal Health Services; Cultural Anthropology
Description: Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital. explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khira M. Bridges investiages how race- commonly seen as biological in the medical world- is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth, and demonstrates how the "medicalization" of social problems reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Alpha Hospital : unique, but not singular; title: Pregnancy, Medicaid, state regulation, and legal subjection; title: The production of unruly bodies; title: The "primitive pelvis," racial folklore, and atavism in contemporary form of medical disenfranchisement; title: The curious case of the "Alpha patient population"; title: Wily patients, welfare queens, and the reiteration of race.