Moral Panics, Viral Subjects

Black Women's Bodies on the Line during Cuba's 2020 Pandemic Lockdowns

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2285231
AutoresHope Bastian (0000-0001-6253-003X, Wheaton College - Illinois), Maya J Berry (0000-0003-2256-482X, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Ano2022
Volume27
Fascículo1-2
Páginas16-36
Data de publicação2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1935-4932 • E-ISSN: 1935-4940
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jlca.12587
PMID35935183
OpenAlexW4280557942
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas25

While Cuba was in a COVID-19-induced lockdown, coleras, women who wait in hours-long colas (lines) to purchase scarce goods to resell, emerged in online state media as 'folk devils' responsible for the acute shortages of basic goods. Using an intersection lens, we combine fieldwork in lines and content analysis of online media to examine the creation and policing of the colera threat during the summer of 2020. Coleras were framed as immoral subjects, gendered and racialized, and often depicted as a virus that threatened the nation's health. The colera moral panic attempted to obscure class, race, and gender inequalities and structures that have made certain citizens vulnerable in the aftermath of successive waves of Cuban economic reforms. Understanding this moral panic allows us to appreciate the material scarcities and indignities to which poor Black women have been subjected, and widespread concerns about the state's failure to protect society's most vulnerable

Art · Criminology · Ethnology · Humanities · Moral panic · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Law