Fatal denial : racism and the political life of Black infant mortality /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Menzel, Annie (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
Series:	Reproductive justice ; 9.
Subjects:	African American infants > Mortality > United States. Biopolitics > United States. Race discrimination > United States. Nourrissons noirs américains > Mortalité > États-Unis. Biopolitique > États-Unis. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : fatal deflections
The cult of true babyhood : innocence and infant mortality
Three forms of innocence in W.E.B. Du Bois' 'of the passing of the first-born'
Innocence and inheritance : Mary Church Terrell and the reproduction of the white world
The midwife's bag
From infants in crisis to maternal health crisis.