Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something...
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Author: Rana A. Hogarth
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Language: English
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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 by Hogarth, Rana A.

Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

€62,60

Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

€62,60
Author: Rana A. Hogarth
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses and beyond. In this fascinating medical history, Rana A. Hogarth examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery.

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.



Author: Rana A. Hogarth
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/09/2017
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.42w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781469632872

About the Author
Rana A. Hogarth is assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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