Reproducing race [electronic resource] : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization / Khiara M. Bridges.
Bridges, Khiara M.
2011
RG501.U6 B75 2011eb
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Title Reproducing race [electronic resource] : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization / Khiara M. Bridges.
Author Bridges, Khiara M.
ISBN 9780520949447 (electronic bk.)
9780520268944
9780520268951
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 293 p.)
Call Number RG501.U6 B75 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.19/82009747
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.
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