Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination

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Release: 2011-10-20
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0816676488
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Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization's broader struggle for social justice: health care. The Black Panther Party's health activism--its network of free health clinics, its campaign to raise awareness about genetic disease, and its challenges to medical discrimination--was an expression of its founding political philosophy and also a recognition that poor blacks were both underserved by mainstream medicine and ove Download Body and Soul for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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