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

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ISBN: 9780816676491

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	Nelson, Alondra
Pub Date	01/09/2013
Binding	Paperback
Pages	312

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

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Alondra Nelson recovers a lesser-known aspect of The Black Panther Party's broader struggle for social justice: health care. Nelson argues that the Party's focus on health care was practical and ideological and that their understanding of health as a basic human right and its engagement with the social implications of genetics anticipated current debates about the politics of health and race.

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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.