Vitality Politics: Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation

by Stephen Knadler

Book Overview

Vitality Politics focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book engages with recent critical disability studies scholarship to recognize that debility, or the targeted maiming and distressing of Black populations, is a largely unacknowledged strategy of the U.S. liberal multicultural capitalist state. This politicization of biological health serves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047205418X
• ISBN13: 9780472054183
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"