In the Blood - Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race (Hardcover, New)


Although it strikes individuals from a variety of backgrounds, sickle cell anemia has always been known as a "black" disease in America. In the Blood argues that ever since the discovery in 1910 and subsequent scientific analysis of the disease, sickle cell anemia has been manipulated to serve social ends-as a tool for securing white identity and a way to establish a hierarchy based on European heritage. Tapper shows how sickle cell anemia was used to promote the superiority of racial purity, to characterize the black body as contaminated, and even to support the notion that modern humans evolved from multiple origins.

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Although it strikes individuals from a variety of backgrounds, sickle cell anemia has always been known as a "black" disease in America. In the Blood argues that ever since the discovery in 1910 and subsequent scientific analysis of the disease, sickle cell anemia has been manipulated to serve social ends-as a tool for securing white identity and a way to establish a hierarchy based on European heritage. Tapper shows how sickle cell anemia was used to promote the superiority of racial purity, to characterize the black body as contaminated, and even to support the notion that modern humans evolved from multiple origins.

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Imprint

University of PennsylvaniaPress

Country of origin

United States

Release date

February 1999

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

1998

Authors

Dimensions

216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover - Paper over boards

Pages

176

Edition

New

ISBN-13

978-0-8122-3471-8

Barcode

9780812234718

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LSN

0-8122-3471-5



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