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Overview"Fatal Denial argues that over the past 150 years, US health authorities' explanations of and interventions into Black infant mortality have been characterized by the ""biopolitics of racial innocence,"" a term describing the institutionalized mechanisms in health care and policy that have at once obscured, enabled, and perpetuated systemic infanticide by blaming Black mothers and communities themselves. Following Black feminist scholarship demonstrating that the commodification and theft of Black women's reproductive bodies, labors, and care is foundational to US racial capitalism, Annie Menzel posits that the polity has made Black infants vulnerable to preventable death. Drawing on key Black political thought and praxis around infant mortality—from W.E.B. Du Bois and Mary Church Terrell to Black midwives and birth workers—this work also tracks continued refusals to acknowledge this routinized reproductive violence, illuminating both a rich history of care and the possibility of more transformative futures." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Annie MenzelPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 9 ISBN: 9780520297197ISBN 10: 0520297199 Pages: 382 Publication Date: 28 May 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Fatal Deflections 1. The Cult of True Babyhood: Innocence and Infant Mortality 2. Three Forms of Innocence in W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Of the Passing of the First-Born” 3. Innocence and Inheritance: Mary Church Terrell and the Reproduction of the White World 4. The Midwife’s Bag 5. From Infants in Crisis to Maternal Health Crisis: Birth Justice against Racial Innocence Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationAnnie Menzel is a political theorist and former midwife. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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