The Black Panther Party's fight against medical discrimination
Interview
https://video.ens-lyon.fr/eduscol-cdl/2012/2012-01-09_ANG_Nelson.mp4
Alondra Nelson is Associate Professor of Sociology and also holds an appointment in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWaG). Her areas of specialization include race and ethnicity in the U.S.; gender and kinship; socio-historical studies of medicine, science and technology; and social and cultural theory. Nelson studies the production of knowledge about human difference in biomedicine and technoscience and the circulation of these ideas in the public sphere: Her research focuses on how science and its applications shape the social world, including aspects of personal identification, racial formation and collective action.
Bibliography
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Politics of Health and Race (forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press)
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Reconciliation Projects: Slavery, Memory and the Social Life ofDNA (book-length manuscript in progress)
Edited books
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Afrofuturism (A Special Issue of Social Text, Duke Uni-versity Press, 2002)
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Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life, Co-Editor with Thuy Linh N. Tu and Alicia Headlam Hines (New York Uni-versity Press, 2001).
Journal articles
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«Bio Science: Genetic Genealogy Testing and the Pursuit of African Ancestry» (Social Studies of Science, 2008)
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«The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing», with Deborah Bolnick, et al., (Science, 2007)
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«Racial categories in medical practice: How useful are they?», with Lundy Braun, et al. (Public Library of Science, 2007)
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«Aliens Who Are Of Course Ourselves': The Art of Layla Ali» (Art Journal: Journal of the College Art Association, 2001)
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«Communities on the Verge: Intersections and Disjunctures in the New Information Order» with T. Tu, A. Hines, and D. Wexler (Computers and Composition, 1997)
Pour citer cette ressource :
Alondra Nelson, Claire Richard, "The Black Panther Party's fight against medical discrimination", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), janvier 2012. Consulté le 04/11/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/civilisation/domaine-americain/immigration-et-minorites/the-black-panther-party-s-fight-against-medical-discrimination