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Anne Pollock offers a model and method for situating everyday forms of anti-Blackness within a larger machinery of death-making that-whether it grinds people down slowly or extinguishes them swiftly-counts on our inability to connect the dots. Riveting, infuriating, and essential, Sickening reminds us that neither statistics nor structural analysis will save us, and all those committed to social change must heed the stories we tell (and are told) about racism and inequity if we are to get free. -Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology For all the ink that has been spilled on racial disparities in disease, there is frustratingly little attention to how racism works and why it both developed and persists. With Sickening, Anne Pollock meticulously illustrates several key theoretical and conceptual principles on race and racism, such as their durability, that have not yet been fully developed in the field of science and technology studies. -Lundy Braun, author of Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics A crucial guided analysis of anti-Blackness and its impact on Black people's ability to live as fully entitled citizens, Pollock's scholarship is essential medicine for a society in denial about its sickness. -Foreword This book offers us the tools to think and act critically about workable solutions, as we recognize injustice and realize our part in dismantling systems of inequities. -Colors of Influence

Anne Pollock offers a model and method for situating everyday forms of antiblackness within a larger machinery of death-making that-whether it grinds people down slowly or extinguishes them swiftly-counts on our inability to connect the dots. Riveting, infuriating, and essential, Sickening reminds us that neither statistics nor structural analysis will save us, and all those committed to social change must heed the stories we tell (and are told) about racism and inequity if we are to get free. -Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology

Anne Pollock offers a model and method for situating everyday forms of anti-Blackness within a larger machinery of death-making that-whether it grinds people down slowly or extinguishes them swiftly-counts on our inability to connect the dots. Riveting, infuriating, and essential, Sickening reminds us that neither statistics nor structural analysis will save us, and all those committed to social change must heed the stories we tell (and are told) about racism and inequity if we are to get free. -Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology For all the ink that has been spilled on racial disparities in disease, there is frustratingly little attention to how racism works and why it both developed and persists. With Sickening, Anne Pollock meticulously illustrates several key theoretical and conceptual principles on race and racism, such as their durability, that have not yet been fully developed in the field of science and technology studies. -Lundy Braun, author of Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics A crucial guided analysis of anti-Blackness and its impact on Black people's ability to live as fully entitled citizens, Pollock's scholarship is essential medicine for a society in denial about its sickness. -Foreword This book offers us the tools to think and act critically about workable solutions, as we recognize injustice and realize our part in dismantling systems of inequities. -Colors of Influence Sickening is a great book for opening minds, encouraging action, and inspiring advocacy for justice. -American Scientist

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Anne Pollock is professor of global health and social medicine at King's College London. She is author of Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference and Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery.

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