Black Studies has something vital to contribute to the study of how pandemics, epidemics, health, medicine, and wellness, are thought and intervened in. By engaging in an interdisciplinary conversation that spans works focused on health, medicine, the body, and disease from the fields of Black Studies, Literature, Visual Art, History, Political Science, Performance Studies, and Sociology, we will gain a fuller understanding of how Black cultures, activists, artists, and everyday people have lived through and resisted pandemics, epidemics, and medical brutality.
Each week we will cover a new theme, theory, or field of study crucial to developing a holistic understanding of Black health. Themes will include, but are not limited to, scientific racism, epidemics and pandemics, medical experimentation, birthing and reproduction, and Disability, Fat, and Madness Studies.
Each week we will cover a new theme, theory, or field of study crucial to developing a holistic understanding of Black health. Themes will include, but are not limited to, scientific racism, epidemics and pandemics, medical experimentation, birthing and reproduction, and Disability, Fat, and Madness Studies.
- Teacher: Jamal Batts