Dána-Ain Davis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 78177 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dána-Ain Davis |
| NOMBRES | Dána-Ain |
| APELLIDO | Davis |
| FIRMA | DAVIS D |
| AFILIACIONES | Queens College, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7305-709X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 307 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Struggles
This special section emerges from the first European conference on race and reproduction, held in Paris in 2023. It examines how colonial legacies, racial hierarchies, and racism shape maternal and reproductive health outcomes for Black populations across Europe, Africa, South America, and North America. Moving beyond the dominant US‐centric framework in the literature, the collection draws on theoretical analysis and ethnographic research to doc…
Obstetric racism in Europe
In this article, we conceptualize how Davis’ two concepts of uneven reproduction and obstetric racism—both rooted in the US context—are effectuated in the Netherlands. We consider uneven reproduction to consist of bio‐ and necropolitics, namely the management and regulation of a population's bodies, life and death. Through bio‐ and necropolitics, certain life is optimized by investments, and other life is negated by disinvestments in reproductive…
Cured”
Black Anti-Bodies and the Trauma of Obstetric Racism
This article introduces the concept of Black Anti-Bodies, a framework highlighting the intersection of racism, gender, and medical violence against Black women and birthing people in the United States. Black Anti-Bodies is a diagnostic that refers to the paradoxical treatment of Black women's reproducing bodies as exploited within the American healthcare system and broader society. Black Anti-Bodies are both essential and disposable, relied upon …
Black Anti-bodies and the Lexicon of Racism
This thought piece explores the laboring and birthing experience of two Black reproducing bodies and how they are shaped by obstetric racism. I think through their medical encounters by considering how Black bodies are degraded, ushering them toward mistreatment. The term, Black antibodies is the framing used in this piece as an explanation to understand what produces the traumatic repercussions of racism that are weighed down by disposability, n…
The Continued Significance of Obstetric Violence
The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
The tense but enduring engagement between anthropology and gender and sexuality studies has had profound effects upon anthropological theory and practice. Bringing together contributions from an international team of authors, this Handbook shows that anthropological work has taken inspiration from feminist and LGBTQI movements to create a transformative body of research. It provides an accessible, state-of-the-art overview of the anthropology of …
Uneven reproduction
In the United States adverse reproductive outcomes are often understood in terms of Black and White differentials within the context of US‐centric racism and as an afterlife of slavery. Yet similar racial variances in outcomes are found globally. How might we understand the persistence of adverse reproductive outcomes among Black women compared to White women in transnational contexts? Building on the concept of uneven development, this article u…
Palmetto, from Black Girl in Triptych , Part 1
Palmetto, from Black Girl in Triptych, Part 1 Dána-Ain Davis (bio) The short man muttered to himself as he limped toward his seat in the fifth car of the Palmetto leaving Charleston, South Carolina . . . the car where Negroes sat. His body was slight, wisp-like, but his mouth sounded like he was swishing seven marbles. He spoke kind of funny because apparently, he never left his Haitian accent back in Acul-du-Nord, even though he arrived in Edgef…
The Unbearable Whiteness of Citational Practice in US Medical Anthropology
In this article, we examine the citational practices of US medical anthropology and seek to decenter Western-centric theory to minimize its theoretical dominance in the field. We call for a robust engagement with a broader variety of texts, genres of evidence, methodologies, and interdisciplinary forms of expertise and epistemology in response to the unbearable whiteness of the citational practices we critique. The practices are unbearable in tha…
Editors’ Welcome
Editors’ Welcome
Editors' Welcome
Leith Mullings (1945-2020)
Obstetric Racism
Reproductive Injustice
The premature birth rate in the United States has been persistently high among Black women for many decades. While most research on the topic of premature birth involves poor and low-income women, this book focuses on the experiences of more affluent women to show that race is as much a common denominator as class in adverse birth outcomes. Using the afterlife of slavery framework, the book argues that racism shapes professional and college-educa…
Editors' Welcome
Editors' Welcome
Reproducing while Black
Reproductive Injustice
For decades, sociologists and anthropologists have been at the forefront of theorizing and empirically documenting how racism negatively affects the health and well-being of socially marginalized racial groups in the United States (e.g., Bridges 2011; Gravlee and Sweet 2008; Williams and Sternthal 2010). By contrast, most public health researchers’ explanations for racial health disparities have largely on treated race as a risk factor, rather th…
Trump, Race, and Reproduction in the Afterlife of Slavery
I want to come at the question of reproduction in the era of Donald Trump via my own work on racism and reproduction.To be sure, the unjust policies inflicted by Trump hold all bodies hostage.But I take a Black feminist approach to explore some of the reproductive issues facing Black and brown women in the United States to make the point that this moment of reproductive control has been rehearsed in earlier periods of U.S. history.I place two exa…
Obstetric Racism
In this article, I analyze the birth stories of Black women living in the United States. Their birth stories describe various forms of racism during medical encounters while they were pregnant or during labor and delivery. In the global women's health arena, the issues raised are viewed as obstetric violence. However, obstetric racism-as both an occurrence and analytic-best captures the particularities of Black women's reproductive care during th…
Addicted.pregnant.poor. Kelly Ray Knight. Durham, NC
The Bone Collectors” Comments for Sorrow as Artifact
This essay is based on comments for the panel Sorrow as Artifact: Black Radical Mothering in Times of Terror. Historically, Black mothers have faced the loss of their children in a myriad of ways, through enslavement, infant mortality, and police and state sanctioned violence. The normalizations of these losses are violent in and of themselves. In this discussion, we see that Black motherhood and mothering cannot escape being a site of political …
Feminist Ethnography
Obstetric Racism
In this article, I analyze the birth stories of Black women living in the United States. Their birth stories describe various forms of racism during medical encounters while they were pregnant or during labor and delivery. In the global women's health arena, the issues raised are viewed as obstetric violence. However, obstetric racism-as both an occurrence and analytic-best captures the particularities of Black women's reproductive care during th…
Narrating the Mute
This article explores the shifting nature of racism in the context of neoliberalism. The concept of muted racism and racializing is the lens through which welfare reform policy is viewed to illustrate the practices and processes of new forms of racism, the impact of welfare reform policy and examples from welfare reform research are viewed through the lens of muted racism and racializing. Keywords: muted racializingmuted racismneoliberalismpost-B…
Reproducing while Black
Manufacturing Mammies
We cannot become a nation of short-order cooks and saleswomen, Xerox-machine operators and messenger boys. (Felix Rohatyn, 1981)2IntroductionContemporary welfare reform in the U.S. has been praised by conservative policy elites for its role in disciplining the poor and reducing the numbers of people receiving public assistance and focussing on work, not welfare (Horn and Bush, 2003; O'Neil and Hill, 2003). However, outside those circles, social s…
The Conflicts of Crisis
Obstetric Racism
Trump, Race, and Reproduction in the Afterlife of Slavery
I want to come at the question of reproduction in the era of Donald Trump via my own work on racism and reproduction.To be sure, the unjust policies inflicted by Trump hold all bodies hostage.But I take a Black feminist approach to explore some of the reproductive issues facing Black and brown women in the United States to make the point that this moment of reproductive control has been rehearsed in earlier periods of U.S. history.I place two exa…
Black Anti-bodies and the Lexicon of Racism
This thought piece explores the laboring and birthing experience of two Black reproducing bodies and how they are shaped by obstetric racism. I think through their medical encounters by considering how Black bodies are degraded, ushering them toward mistreatment. The term, Black antibodies is the framing used in this piece as an explanation to understand what produces the traumatic repercussions of racism that are weighed down by disposability, n…
The Unbearable Whiteness of Citational Practice in US Medical Anthropology
In this article, we examine the citational practices of US medical anthropology and seek to decenter Western-centric theory to minimize its theoretical dominance in the field. We call for a robust engagement with a broader variety of texts, genres of evidence, methodologies, and interdisciplinary forms of expertise and epistemology in response to the unbearable whiteness of the citational practices we critique. The practices are unbearable in tha…
The Bone Collectors” Comments for Sorrow as Artifact
This essay is based on comments for the panel Sorrow as Artifact: Black Radical Mothering in Times of Terror. Historically, Black mothers have faced the loss of their children in a myriad of ways, through enslavement, infant mortality, and police and state sanctioned violence. The normalizations of these losses are violent in and of themselves. In this discussion, we see that Black motherhood and mothering cannot escape being a site of political …
What Is a Feminist Activist Ethnographer To Do
The Politics of Reproduction
On January 26, 2009, Nadya Suleman gave birth to the nation's second set of octuplets. Over the course of 30 days Ms. Suleman became the subject of outrage and outrageous representations over her choice to have in vitro fertilization since she already had six children. Embedded in Suleman's public construction and representations are subtle transcripts of race, class, and reproduction. This article examines these intersections as they relate to s…
Reproductive Injustice
For decades, sociologists and anthropologists have been at the forefront of theorizing and empirically documenting how racism negatively affects the health and well-being of socially marginalized racial groups in the United States (e.g., Bridges 2011; Gravlee and Sweet 2008; Williams and Sternthal 2010). By contrast, most public health researchers’ explanations for racial health disparities have largely on treated race as a risk factor, rather th…
Working It Off
Feminist Politics, Racialized Imagery, and Social Control
This article looks at how dominant feminist narratives regarding the expansion of women's political rights is limited by their inattention to issues of race, sexuality, class and other variables that limit women's freedom. The authors argue that rhetorical claims about "gender progress" mask very significant differences among various sub-groups of women with regard to their ability to exercise their rights to control many aspects of their lives; …
Epilogue
Introduction
The Income Level of Clients of the Red Cross Welfare Service
The Income Level of Clients of the Red Cross Welfare Service
Working It Off
Manufacturing Mammies
We cannot become a nation of short-order cooks and saleswomen, Xerox-machine operators and messenger boys. (Felix Rohatyn, 1981)2IntroductionContemporary welfare reform in the U.S. has been praised by conservative policy elites for its role in disciplining the poor and reducing the numbers of people receiving public assistance and focussing on work, not welfare (Horn and Bush, 2003; O'Neil and Hill, 2003). However, outside those circles, social s…
Non-State Actors in the Human Rights Universe
Departing from analyses that focus on the role of the state in the arena of human rights, the authors of this original collection offer conceptually sophisticated, but accessible, discussions of the role and responsibility of nonstate actors with regard to the violation, promotion, and protection of human rights
Narrating the Mute
This article explores the shifting nature of racism in the context of neoliberalism. The concept of muted racism and racializing is the lens through which welfare reform policy is viewed to illustrate the practices and processes of new forms of racism, the impact of welfare reform policy and examples from welfare reform research are viewed through the lens of muted racism and racializing. Keywords: muted racializingmuted racismneoliberalismpost-B…
Introduction
Black Gender and Sexuality
How do Black gender and sexuality articulate spatially? At this moment, where are the quotidian spaces occupied by Black gendered and sexualized lives? We ask these questions in light of the years
The Politics of Reproduction
On January 26, 2009, Nadya Suleman gave birth to the nation's second set of octuplets. Over the course of 30 days Ms. Suleman became the subject of outrage and outrageous representations over her choice to have in vitro fertilization since she already had six children. Embedded in Suleman's public construction and representations are subtle transcripts of race, class, and reproduction. This article examines these intersections as they relate to s…
The Tenants of East Harlem by Russell Leigh Sharman
Bricks and Mortar
Homecoming
Constructing fear in academia
Neoliberal values and ideology, which have broadly undermined social justice ideals, have been inserted into a range of public spheres both in the U.S.A. and internationally. Public higher education institutions have increasingly acquiesced to neoliberal strategies, which restrict access to public services, commodify the public sphere and challenge the legitimacy of progressive and liberal politics. This article explores some neoliberal practices…
Tributes From Dr. Marable's Colleagues
Manning Marable played such a decisive role in shaping radical theories and practices of liberation in the latter twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that it is not easy to imagine our lives
Black Genders and Sexualities
Cutting across the humanities and social sciences, and situated in sites across the black diaspora, the work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living in a post-racial age and in
Extraordinary Intersections
Reading Race Now
Feminist Politics, Racialized Imagery, and Social Control
This article looks at how dominant feminist narratives regarding the expansion of women's political rights is limited by their inattention to issues of race, sexuality, class and other variables that limit women's freedom. The authors argue that rhetorical claims about "gender progress" mask very significant differences among various sub-groups of women with regard to their ability to exercise their rights to control many aspects of their lives; …
Feminist Activist Ethnography
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, a…
Feminist Activist Ethnography
Border Crossings: Intimacy and Feminist Activist Ethnography in the Age of Neoliberalism Dana-Ain Davis 2. Learning Social Justice and Activist Ethnography from Women with Breast Cancer Mary K. Anglin 3. Feminist Ethnography with Domestic Violence Shelter Advocates: Negotiating the Neoliberal Era Jennifer R. Wies Reflection: Fearlessly Engaging Complicity Scott Lauria Morgensen Part 2: Feminist Ethnographer as Critic 4. Seeking Material: Rethinki…
Signing Off, Calling Forward
On Moving Words
Epilogue
What Is a Feminist Activist Ethnographer To Do
The Conflicts of Crisis
The Bone Collectors” Comments for Sorrow as Artifact
This essay is based on comments for the panel Sorrow as Artifact: Black Radical Mothering in Times of Terror. Historically, Black mothers have faced the loss of their children in a myriad of ways, through enslavement, infant mortality, and police and state sanctioned violence. The normalizations of these losses are violent in and of themselves. In this discussion, we see that Black motherhood and mothering cannot escape being a site of political …
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