Description: Reproducing RaceAn Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization Author(s): Khiara Bridges Format: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press, United States Imprint: University of California Press ISBN-13: 9780520268951, 978-0520268951 Synopsis "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. Khiara M. Bridges investigates 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. Bridges argues that race carries powerful material consequences for these women even when it is not explicitly named, showing how they are marginalized by the practices and assumptions of the clinic staff. Deftly weaving ethnographic evidence into broader discussions of Medicaid and racial disparities in infant and maternal mortality, Bridges shines new light on the politics of healthcare for the poor, demonstrating how the 'medicalization' of social problems reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color.
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Book Title: Reproducing Race
Number of Pages: 306 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Reproducing Race: an Ethnography of Pregnancy As a Site of Racialization
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Social Sciences, Healthcare System
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 454 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Khiara Bridges
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
