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Winner, 2020 Senior Book Prize, given by the Association of
Feminist Anthropology Winner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize,
given by the Society for Medical Anthropology Honorable Mention,
2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the
Society for Humanistic Anthropology Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in
the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, given by the
Association of American Publishers A troubling study of the role
that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have
given birth to premature and low birth weight infants Black women
have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America.
This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer
women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional,
middle-class black women are at a much higher risk of premature
birth than low-income white women in the United States. Dana-Ain
Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in
birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas
about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the
legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery. While
poor and low-income black women are often the "mascots" of
premature birth outcomes, this book focuses on professional black
women, who are just as likely to give birth prematurely. Drawing on
an impressive array of interviews with nearly fifty mothers,
fathers, neonatologists, nurses, midwives, and reproductive justice
advocates, Dana-Ain Davis argues that events leading up to an
infant's arrival in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and the
parents' experiences while they are in the NICU, reveal subtle but
pernicious forms of racism that confound the perceived class
dynamics that are frequently understood to be a central factor of
premature birth. The book argues not only that medical racism
persists and must be considered when examining adverse outcomes-as
well as upsetting experiences for parents-but also that NICUs and
life-saving technologies should not be the only strategies for
improving the outcomes for black pregnant women and their babies.
Davis makes the case for other avenues, such as community-based
birthing projects, doulas, and midwives, that support women during
pregnancy and labor are just as important and effective in avoiding
premature births and mortality.
Katherine Dunham was an anthropologist. One of the first African
Americans to obtain a degree in anthropology, she conducted
groundbreaking fieldwork in Jamaica and Haiti in the early 1930s
and wrote several books including Journey to Accompong, Island
Possessed, and Las Danzas de Haiti. Decades before Margaret Mead
was publishing for popular audiences in Redbook, Dunham wrote
ethnographically informed essays for Esquire and Mademoiselle under
the pseudonym Kaye Dunn. Katherine Dunham was a dancer. The first
person to head a black modern dance company, Dunham toured the
world, appeared in numerous films in the United States and abroad,
and worked globally to promote the vitality and relevance of
African diasporic dance and culture. Dunham was a cultural advisor,
teacher, Kennedy Center honoree, and political activist. This book
explores Katherine Dunham's contribution to anthropology and the
ongoing relevance of her ideas and methodologies, rejecting the
idea that art and academics need to be cleanly separated from each
other. Drawing from Dunham's holistic vision, the contributors
began to experiment with how to bring the practise of art back into
the discipline of anthropology - and vice versa.
Winner, 2020 Senior Book Prize, given by the Association of
Feminist Anthropology Winner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize,
given by the Society for Medical Anthropology Honorable Mention,
2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the
Society for Humanistic Anthropology Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in
the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, given by the
Association of American Publishers A troubling study of the role
that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have
given birth to premature and low birth weight infants Black women
have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America.
This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer
women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional,
middle-class black women are at a much higher risk of premature
birth than low-income white women in the United States. Dana-Ain
Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in
birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas
about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the
legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery. While
poor and low-income black women are often the "mascots" of
premature birth outcomes, this book focuses on professional black
women, who are just as likely to give birth prematurely. Drawing on
an impressive array of interviews with nearly fifty mothers,
fathers, neonatologists, nurses, midwives, and reproductive justice
advocates, Dana-Ain Davis argues that events leading up to an
infant's arrival in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and the
parents' experiences while they are in the NICU, reveal subtle but
pernicious forms of racism that confound the perceived class
dynamics that are frequently understood to be a central factor of
premature birth. The book argues not only that medical racism
persists and must be considered when examining adverse outcomes-as
well as upsetting experiences for parents-but also that NICUs and
life-saving technologies should not be the only strategies for
improving the outcomes for black pregnant women and their babies.
Davis makes the case for other avenues, such as community-based
birthing projects, doulas, and midwives, that support women during
pregnancy and labor are just as important and effective in avoiding
premature births and mortality.
Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social
justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating
"consumer choices" and ideals of market justice, contributors to
this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key
position to reassert the central feminist connections between
theory, methods, and activism. Together, we suggest avenues for
incorporating methodological innovations, collaborative analysis,
and collective activism in our scholarly projects. What are the
possibilities (and challenges) that exist for feminist ethnography
25 years after initial debates emerged in this field about
reflexivity, objectivity, reductive individualism, and the social
relevance of activist scholarship? How can feminist ethnography
intensify efforts towards social justice in the current political
and economic climate? This collection continues a crucial dialog
about feminist activist ethnography in the 21st century-at the
intersection of engaged feminist research and activism in the
service of the organizations, people, communities, and feminist
issues we study.
Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social
justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating
"consumer choices" and ideals of market justice, contributors to
this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key
position to reassert the central feminist connections between
theory, methods, and activism. Together, we suggest avenues for
incorporating methodological innovations, collaborative analysis,
and collective activism in our scholarly projects. What are the
possibilities (and challenges) that exist for feminist ethnography
25 years after initial debates emerged in this field about
reflexivity, objectivity, reductive individualism, and the social
relevance of activist scholarship? How can feminist ethnography
intensify efforts towards social justice in the current political
and economic climate? This collection continues a crucial dialog
about feminist activist ethnography in the 21st century-at the
intersection of engaged feminist research and activism in the
service of the organizations, people, communities, and feminist
issues we study.
Feminist Ethnography, Second Edition, is a cross-cultural and
interdisciplinary text that employs a problem-based approach to
guide readers through the methods, challenges, and possibilities of
feminist ethnography. Dana-Ain Davis and Christa Craven tease out
the influences of feminist ethnography across a variety of
disciplines including women's and gender studies, critical race
studies, ethnic studies, education, communications, psychology,
sociology, urban studies, and American studies. Feature elements of
the text include Essentials (excerpts from key texts in the field),
Spotlights (interviews with feminist ethnographers), and suggested
assignments and readings. The text concludes with a "conversation"
among contemporary feminist ethnographers about what feminist
ethnography looks like today and into the future.
Feminist Ethnography, Second Edition, is a cross-cultural and
interdisciplinary text that employs a problem-based approach to
guide readers through the methods, challenges, and possibilities of
feminist ethnography. Dana-Ain Davis and Christa Craven tease out
the influences of feminist ethnography across a variety of
disciplines including women's and gender studies, critical race
studies, ethnic studies, education, communications, psychology,
sociology, urban studies, and American studies. Feature elements of
the text include Essentials (excerpts from key texts in the field),
Spotlights (interviews with feminist ethnographers), and suggested
assignments and readings. The text concludes with a "conversation"
among contemporary feminist ethnographers about what feminist
ethnography looks like today and into the future.
This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of
welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. DC
na-Ain Davis profiles twenty-two women, thirteen of whom are Black,
living in a battered women's shelter in a small city in upstate New
York. She explores the contradictions between welfare reform's
supposed success in moving women off of public assistance and
toward economic self-sufficiency and the consequences welfare
reform policy has presented for Black women fleeing domestic
violence. Focusing on the intersection of poverty, violence, and
race, she demonstrates the differential treatment that Black and
White women face in their entanglements with the welfare
bureaucracy by linking those entanglements to the larger political
economy of a small city, neoliberal social policies, and racialized
ideas about Black women as workers and mothers.
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