Rana Hogarth
Biographic Data
| ID | 811304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rana Hogarth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rana |
| FAMILY NAME | Hogarth |
| SIGNATURE | HOGARTH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9468-3433 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pushing Cool
Race, place, and power in the production of medical knowledge
Over the past 10 years, the Greater Caribbean has emerged as an instructive historical concept for scholarly studies on slavery, race, disease, climate, commerce, and culture. During the era of Atlantic World slavery, this region spanned the Carolinas to the Caribbean, was home to racially diverse inhabitants, new diseases, flora and fauna typically not found in Europe, and climates that were equally as unfamiliar. Scholars have increasingly come…
Secret Cures of Slaves
Reviewed by: Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Londa Schiebinger Rana Hogarth Londa Schiebinger. Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017. xvi + 234 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978–1–5036–0291–5). For many scholars the eighteenth-century Caribbean represents a contentious space shaped by Europ…
A Contemporary Black Perspective on the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia
"A Contemporary Black Perspective on the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia." , 109(10), pp. 1337–1338
The Myth of Innate Racial Differences Between White and Black People’s Bodies
In this commentary, I take up the question of why beliefs in fundamental, innate racial differences between Black and White people’s bodies persist in medical discourse, despite evidence to the contrary. I locate the origin of some of these beliefs in the infamous yellow fever epidemic that struck Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1793. During that early public health crisis, White physicians and lay people erroneously thought that Black people were…
Of Black Skin and Biopower
Of Black Skin and Biopower:Lessons from the Eighteenth Century Rana Hogarth (bio) Glancing through a box of Benjamin Rush's papers at the Library Company of Philadelphia, I lingered over the typed page identifying the contents: Lectures on Pathology: series 3 box 3ContentsOf local diseasesOf the black color of the African p. 505Of the proximate cause of death p. 5251 I was not surprised to find black skin color included in Rush's writings on path…
"To "excite the curiosity, and gratify the beholder
Public displays, visual likenesses, and textual accounts of Black people with whitening skin brought the peripheral peoples who inhabited Atlantic World empires within the reach of White metropolitan audiences in the eighteenth century. John Bobey, the "Wonderful Spotted Indian" born to slaves in Kingston, Jamaica, made the rounds at London's Bartholomew Fair, while the infant George Alexander Gratton left his native St. Vincent for England, wher…
Medicalizing Blackness
" ... Examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge about black bodies to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery"
Charity and terror in eighteenth-century Jamaica
The Hospital and Asylum for Deserted Negroes in Kingston, Jamaica, was a major site of care for indigent blacks in one of the most densely populated urban centers on one of Britain's most valuable sugar islands. When the hospital opened, sometime after 1788, blacks outnumbered whites ten to one in Jamaica, and the island's whites continued to enact oppressive measures to control the colony's restive black population. This article shows how the Ho…
The Strange Case of Hannah West
This article examines the strange case of Hannah West, a 'very fair female of the white race of mankind' who had patches of black skin upon her body. A closer glance at William Charles Wells's 1818 posthumous publication of her case, Account of A female of the white race of mankind, part of whose skin resembles that of a Negro , exposes the process through which Wells crafted an incipient theory of natural selection that was based upon the belief…
Doctoring Freedom
Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation." Slavery & Abolition, 35(1), pp. 193–194
Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
Journal Article Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South Get access Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South. By Marli F. Weiner with Mazie Hough. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. xiv, 267 pp. $60.00.) Rana Asali Hogarth Rana Asali Hogarth University of IllinoisUrbana, Illinois [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
The Myth of Innate Racial Differences Between White and Black People’s Bodies
In this commentary, I take up the question of why beliefs in fundamental, innate racial differences between Black and White people’s bodies persist in medical discourse, despite evidence to the contrary. I locate the origin of some of these beliefs in the infamous yellow fever epidemic that struck Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1793. During that early public health crisis, White physicians and lay people erroneously thought that Black people were…
Of Black Skin and Biopower
Of Black Skin and Biopower:Lessons from the Eighteenth Century Rana Hogarth (bio) Glancing through a box of Benjamin Rush's papers at the Library Company of Philadelphia, I lingered over the typed page identifying the contents: Lectures on Pathology: series 3 box 3ContentsOf local diseasesOf the black color of the African p. 505Of the proximate cause of death p. 5251 I was not surprised to find black skin color included in Rush's writings on path…
A Contemporary Black Perspective on the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia
"A Contemporary Black Perspective on the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia." , 109(10), pp. 1337–1338
"To "excite the curiosity, and gratify the beholder
Public displays, visual likenesses, and textual accounts of Black people with whitening skin brought the peripheral peoples who inhabited Atlantic World empires within the reach of White metropolitan audiences in the eighteenth century. John Bobey, the "Wonderful Spotted Indian" born to slaves in Kingston, Jamaica, made the rounds at London's Bartholomew Fair, while the infant George Alexander Gratton left his native St. Vincent for England, wher…
The Strange Case of Hannah West
This article examines the strange case of Hannah West, a 'very fair female of the white race of mankind' who had patches of black skin upon her body. A closer glance at William Charles Wells's 1818 posthumous publication of her case, Account of A female of the white race of mankind, part of whose skin resembles that of a Negro , exposes the process through which Wells crafted an incipient theory of natural selection that was based upon the belief…
Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
Journal Article Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South Get access Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South. By Marli F. Weiner with Mazie Hough. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. xiv, 267 pp. $60.00.) Rana Asali Hogarth Rana Asali Hogarth University of IllinoisUrbana, Illinois [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
Doctoring Freedom
Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation." Slavery & Abolition, 35(1), pp. 193–194
Charity and terror in eighteenth-century Jamaica
The Hospital and Asylum for Deserted Negroes in Kingston, Jamaica, was a major site of care for indigent blacks in one of the most densely populated urban centers on one of Britain's most valuable sugar islands. When the hospital opened, sometime after 1788, blacks outnumbered whites ten to one in Jamaica, and the island's whites continued to enact oppressive measures to control the colony's restive black population. This article shows how the Ho…
The Strange Case of Hannah West
This article examines the strange case of Hannah West, a 'very fair female of the white race of mankind' who had patches of black skin upon her body. A closer glance at William Charles Wells's 1818 posthumous publication of her case, Account of A female of the white race of mankind, part of whose skin resembles that of a Negro , exposes the process through which Wells crafted an incipient theory of natural selection that was based upon the belief…
Medicalizing Blackness
" ... Examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge about black bodies to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery"
"To "excite the curiosity, and gratify the beholder
Public displays, visual likenesses, and textual accounts of Black people with whitening skin brought the peripheral peoples who inhabited Atlantic World empires within the reach of White metropolitan audiences in the eighteenth century. John Bobey, the "Wonderful Spotted Indian" born to slaves in Kingston, Jamaica, made the rounds at London's Bartholomew Fair, while the infant George Alexander Gratton left his native St. Vincent for England, wher…
Secret Cures of Slaves
Reviewed by: Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Londa Schiebinger Rana Hogarth Londa Schiebinger. Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017. xvi + 234 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978–1–5036–0291–5). For many scholars the eighteenth-century Caribbean represents a contentious space shaped by Europ…
A Contemporary Black Perspective on the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia
"A Contemporary Black Perspective on the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia." , 109(10), pp. 1337–1338
The Myth of Innate Racial Differences Between White and Black People’s Bodies
In this commentary, I take up the question of why beliefs in fundamental, innate racial differences between Black and White people’s bodies persist in medical discourse, despite evidence to the contrary. I locate the origin of some of these beliefs in the infamous yellow fever epidemic that struck Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1793. During that early public health crisis, White physicians and lay people erroneously thought that Black people were…
Of Black Skin and Biopower
Of Black Skin and Biopower:Lessons from the Eighteenth Century Rana Hogarth (bio) Glancing through a box of Benjamin Rush's papers at the Library Company of Philadelphia, I lingered over the typed page identifying the contents: Lectures on Pathology: series 3 box 3ContentsOf local diseasesOf the black color of the African p. 505Of the proximate cause of death p. 5251 I was not surprised to find black skin color included in Rush's writings on path…
Race, place, and power in the production of medical knowledge
Over the past 10 years, the Greater Caribbean has emerged as an instructive historical concept for scholarly studies on slavery, race, disease, climate, commerce, and culture. During the era of Atlantic World slavery, this region spanned the Carolinas to the Caribbean, was home to racially diverse inhabitants, new diseases, flora and fauna typically not found in Europe, and climates that were equally as unfamiliar. Scholars have increasingly come…
Pushing Cool
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