Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization / Khiara M. Bridges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bridges, Khiara M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.).

Hospitals--Maternity services--New York (State)--New York.

Hospitals.

Discrimination in medical care--New York (State)--New York.

Discrimination in medical care.

Minorities--Medical care--New York (State)--New York.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Class

Part Two. Race

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613278104

9781283278102

1283278103

9780520949447

0520949447

OCLC:

707067666