Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization

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Book Section
Health
Creators & Publishers
Author
Bridges, Khiara M.
Publisher
University of California Press
Metadata
ISBN
0520268946
Collection
Regular item
Year
2011
Keywords
African American
Race
biology
medical
class
babies
Description

Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. This book investigates how race is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth.