Commodifying the body to fit in or stand out
To understand the commodification of the body we must ask ourselves what the body is — what it represents, what it means. Each body means and represents different things to[…]
Category: Inequality
Aids and abrogration
“In the United States, a rumor that AIDS is part of a government conspiracy to control the population of minorities circulates persistently among African American communities…” notes AIDS rumors, imaginary[…]
More (mostly posts from my blog)
Doctors, shamans, and clowns.
Clown Doctors: Shaman Healers of Western Medicine makes the argument that the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit — a troupe of performers who dress as clowns in white coats[…]
Radical contextualization: an anthropology of mathematics
“Radical contextualization: contributions to an anthropology of racial/ethnic health disparities” by Chapman and Berggren argues that the world is plagued by a system of global apartheid, wherein privileged classes enjoy[…]
Tumors, race, and socioeconomics
Recently presented data show that the more deadly (ER and PR negative) type of breast cancer tumors are more common in women of color. Black women had more than double[…]
Whooping cough: this is structural violence
When a baby dies from an entirely preventable disease, I can’t think of a better example of structural violence. This short video segment speaks for itself: Watch Losing a Baby[…]
Some interesting deaths data.
Not much time to write about this now, but wanted to share before I forgot. Also, this. And this. I have a lot of backlog to write about. Oh yeah,[…]
The color of the race problem is white
Two great talks from Robert Jensen:
Ten reasons the U.S. is no longer the home of the free
There’s a pretty good talk on YouTube, from Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein, posted by Harvard Law School. Nader makes a compelling case for the continuing abridgement of freedoms in[…]
News media and propaganda
Salon has a pretty digestible write-up about the conflict of interest between TV military experts (“retired generals” and such) who are shown to viewers as neutral advisors while privately profiting[…]