#Blackmedhum

What would it mean for the Black experience with heath (care) to index tropes and themes in the American healthcare system? How has the exclusion of Black experience in defining these words limited a full analysis of these practices in relation to medical/health practice? How does feminism, gender, and sexuality change the landscape of healthcare, in and outside the traditional medical institution? Throughout the semester, students will anchor the affective and experiential realities of African diasporic people in the U.S. to form the first encyclopedia of #blackmedhum.

Students, scholars, community members, and activists can join this digital project (pending funding). It will also be assigned and constructed as a course assignment, as well.

• birth

• maternity

• kinship

• genealogy

• reproductive justice

• reproductive injustice

• Loretta Ross

• Dorothy Roberts

• midwife

• granny midwife

• Tuskegee experiments

• J. Marion Sims

• Henrietta Lacks

• doula

• medical humanities

• Charles Drew University

• Howard University College of Medicine

• Howard University Hospital

• Meharry Medical College

• dispossession

• “medical superbody” (Deidre Cooper Owens, 2017)

• “medical apartheid” (Harriet A. Washington, 2006)

• Saartjie Baartman

• reproductive slavery

• any suggested from students