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

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

9780520949447 (electronic bk.)
9780520268944
9780520268951

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]

©2011

English

1 online resource (xi, 293 pages)

RG501.U6 B75 2011eb

362.19/82009747

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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