medical racism

Immunity, Capitalism, and the Antebellum New Orleans

Many believed that Union soldiers stationed in New Orleans, Louisiana, would soon die. Both Union soldiers and city residents expected

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. By age 44, most people

In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In September 1986, former Third World Women’s