Thu
13
Rooted in Enslavement: How American Medicine Was Built on the Oppression, Experimentation and Commodification of the Black Body
February 13, 2020, 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Black body has been exploited as a tool by others since the first enslaved Africans were brought to the shores of Virginia in 1619. Many industries such as cotton, sugar cane and tobacco were built on the backs of Black people to create the wealth inequality that we see today. What is seldom discussed is the many ways in which the fields of healthcare and medicine were also developed and continue to flourish under the same systems of enslavement and Jim Crow. 