Radical Health
Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture
Seiten
2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2525-2 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2525-2 (ISBN)
Julie Avril Minich examines Latinx artistic engagements with health politics to present alternate visions of health and wellbeing among the Latinx community.
In Radical Health Julie Avril Minich examines the potential of Latinx expressive culture to intervene in contemporary health politics, elaborating how Latinx artists have critiqued ideologies of health that frame wellbeing in terms of personal behavior. Within this framework, poor health—obesity, asthma, diabetes, STIs, addiction, and high-risk pregnancies—is attributed to irresponsible lifestyle choices among the racialized poor. Countering this, Latinx writers and visual artists envision health not as individual duty but as communal responsibility. Bringing a disability justice approach to questions of health access and equity, Minich locates a concept of radical health within the work of Latinx artists, including the poetry of Rafael Campo, the music of Hurray for the Riff Raff, the fiction of Angie Cruz, and the performance art of Virginia Grise. Radical health operates as a modality that both challenges the stigma of unhealth and protests the social conditions that give rise to racial health disparities. Elaborating on this modality, Minich claims a critical role for Latinx artists in addressing the structural racism in public health.
In Radical Health Julie Avril Minich examines the potential of Latinx expressive culture to intervene in contemporary health politics, elaborating how Latinx artists have critiqued ideologies of health that frame wellbeing in terms of personal behavior. Within this framework, poor health—obesity, asthma, diabetes, STIs, addiction, and high-risk pregnancies—is attributed to irresponsible lifestyle choices among the racialized poor. Countering this, Latinx writers and visual artists envision health not as individual duty but as communal responsibility. Bringing a disability justice approach to questions of health access and equity, Minich locates a concept of radical health within the work of Latinx artists, including the poetry of Rafael Campo, the music of Hurray for the Riff Raff, the fiction of Angie Cruz, and the performance art of Virginia Grise. Radical health operates as a modality that both challenges the stigma of unhealth and protests the social conditions that give rise to racial health disparities. Elaborating on this modality, Minich claims a critical role for Latinx artists in addressing the structural racism in public health.
Julie Avril Minich is Associate Professor of English and Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, coeditor of Crip Genealogies, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Radical Health/Radical Unwellness 1
1. Unprotected Texts: Queer Latinx Expression in the Aftermath of AIDS 24
2. Sugar, Shame, Love: Diabetic Latinidades 52
3. Healing Without a Cure: Radical Health and Racialized Gender Violence 82
4. Mental Health and Migrant Justice: Family Separation and Reimagining Wellness 116
Remedio: The Navigator 150
Notes 167
References 187
Index 207
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-2525-5 / 1478025255 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-2525-2 / 9781478025252 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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