Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease

In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed "cult expert" of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called...
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Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease by Beliso-de Jes?s, Aisha M.

Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease

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Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease

BD$46.44
Author: Aisha M. Beliso-de Jes?s
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed "cult expert" of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called "excited delirium syndrome." Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly to describe the deaths of Black men and women during interactions with police. Police and medical examiners claimed that Black people with so-called excited delirium exhibited superhuman strength induced from narcotics abuse. It was fatal heart failure that killed them, examiners said, not forceful police restraints. In Excited Delirium, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jes?s examines this fabricated medical diagnosis and its use to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities. Exposing excited delirium syndrome's flawed diagnostic criteria, she outlines its inextricable ties to the criminalization of Afro-Latin? religions. Beliso-De Jes?s demonstrates that it is yet a further example of the systemic racism that pervades law enforcement in which the culpability for state violence is shifted from the state onto its victims. In so doing, she furthers understanding of the complex layers of medicalized state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States.

Author: Aisha M. Beliso-de Jes?s
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 08/16/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781478030553

About the Author
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús is Olden Street Professor of American Studies at Princeton University and author of Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion.

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