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The legacy of the Black Panther Party’s commitment to community health care, a central aspect of its fight for social justice
Alondra Nelson recovers a lesser-known aspect of The Black Panther Party’s broader struggle for social justice: health care. Nelson argues that the Party’s focus on health care was practical and ideological and that their understanding of health as a basic human right and its engagement with the social implications of genetics anticipated current debates about the politics of health and race.
"In Body and Soul, Alondra Nelson combines careful research, deep political insight, and passionate commitment to tell the little-known story of the Black Panther Party's health activism in the late 1960s. In doing so, and in showing how the problems of poverty, discrimination, and access to medical care remain hauntingly similar more than forty years later, Nelson reminds us that the struggle continues, particularly for African Americans, and that social policies have profound moral implications."—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Medical care, Black Panther Party, Race discrimination, Discrimination in medical care, Minorities, Discrimination, African americans, social conditions, African americans, medical care, Minorities, united states, Medical care, united states, Race Relations, History, Prejudice, Patient Advocacy, History, 20th Century, Healthcare Disparities, African Americans, Health StatusPlaces
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination
2011, University of Minnesota Press
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
2011, University of Minnesota Press
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