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Vitality politics : health, debility, and the limits of black emancipation /

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Stephen Knadler's manuscript examines the biopolitics of African American citizenship starting in the post-Reconstruction period, focusing on how African American civil, political, and economic rights became inseparably linked to African American health. 'Vitality' was a value for the...

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Main Author: Knadler, Stephen P., 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2019]
Series:Corporealities.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Health and hygiene > History.
African Americans > Social conditions.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Vitality.
Biopolitics > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Ill-defined emancipations"
  • Chronic debility and black futures : rehabilitative politics in Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Narrating slow violence : post-Rconstruction's necropolitics and speculating beyond liberal antirace fiction
  • Vibrant naturalism : African American women, respectability ecology, and reimagined accommodations
  • Unsanitized domestic allegories : biomedical politics, racial uplift, and the African American woman's risk narrative
  • "Dis-integrating sanity" : the Harlem Renaissance's "transforming psychology" and black mental distress
  • Epilogue: The futures of back debility.