Excited Delirium

Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3055-3 (ISBN)

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Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines the emergence of “excited delirium syndrome” in the 1980s, a fabricated medical diagnosis used to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities in the United States.

In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly to describe the deaths of Black men and women during interactions with police. Police and medical examiners claimed that Black people with so-called excited delirium exhibited superhuman strength induced from narcotics abuse. It was fatal heart failure that killed them, examiners said, not forceful police restraints. In Excited Delirium, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines this fabricated medical diagnosis and its use to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities. Exposing excited delirium syndrome’s flawed diagnostic criteria, she outlines its inextricable ties to the criminalization of Afro-Latiné religions. Beliso-De Jesús demonstrates that it is yet a further example of the systemic racism that pervades law enforcement in which the culpability for state violence is shifted from the state onto its victims. In so doing, she furthers understanding of the complex layers of medicalized state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States.

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús is Olden Street Professor of American Studies at Princeton University and author of Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion.

Author’s Note: In Warning . . . xi
Introduction: Haunted 1
Journal Entry: Monday, September 20, 2021 10
Emerald Hills, California
1. Nightmares 13
Journal Entry: Saturday, September 25, 2021 26
San Francisco, California
2. Bodies 20
Journal Entry: Saturday, October 2, 2021 43
Antioch, California
3. Murdered 46
Journal Entry: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 58
Stanford, California
4. Manic 60
Journal Entry: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 74
Emerald Hills, California
5. Panicked 77
Journal Entry: Friday, December 17, 2021 95
Stanford, California
6. Tormented 98
Journal Entry: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 117
Stanford, California
7. Brutalized 121
Journal Entry: Tuesday, December 2, 2021 134
Stanford, California
8. Excited 137
Journal Entry: Saturday, January 8, 2022 150
Oakland, California
9. Forced 152
Journal Entry: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 166
Stanford, California
10. Delirious 169
Journal Entry: Sunday, April 10, 2022 182
Emerald Hills, California
11. Conjured 184
Journal Entry: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 195
Antioch, California
12. Empower 197
Journal Entry: Thursday, September 8, 2022 210
Princeton, New Jersey
Afterword 211
Modupué 215
Acknowledgments 219
Glossary 221
Notes 227
Bibliography 273
Index 293

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2024
Zusatzinfo	2 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-3055-0 / 1478030550
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3055-3 / 9781478030553
Zustand	Neuware