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Vitality Politics : Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation by Stephen P Knadler is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Vitality Politics : Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation about?
<i>Vitality Politics</i> focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book engages with recent critical disability studies scholarship to recognize that debility, or the targeted maiming and distressing of Black populations, is a largely unacknowledged strategy of the U.S. liberal multicultural capitalist state. This politicization of biological health serves as an instrument for insisting on a racial
Who reads Vitality Politics : Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stephen P Knadler
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780472054183
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Disability
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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