ANTH 4330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Body Politic, Bobby Seale, Centrifugal Force

• School: York University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 4330
• Professor: Alexandra Widmer

Document Summary

Week 4 reading- the longue duree of black lives matter: This longue dur e of black struggles for well-being offers context for the. This is a battle that stretches back to the era of slavery when people of african descent were deemed fractional beings three fifths of a human and when soundness took precedence over health. As the bpp"s biomedically based interventions made patent following wells the devaluation of black life operates in a dialectic of callous neglect and corporeal surveillance. The bpp"s work of 5 decades ago laid the groundwork for today"s demands for black equality and black thriving.