Medicalizing blackness making racial difference in the atlantic world, 1780-1840 by Rana A. Hogarth
Medicalizing blackness making racial difference in the atlantic world, 1780-1840 by Rana A. Hogarth
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Description
Hogarth refigures Atlantic slave societies as medical frontiers of knowledge production on the topic of racial difference. Rather than looking to their counterparts in Europe who collected and dissected bodies to gain knowledge about race, white physicians in Atlantic slaveholding regions created and tested ideas about race based on the contexts in which they lived and practiced. What emerges in sharp relief is the ways in which blackness was reified in medical discourses and used to perpetuate notions of white supremacy.