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Whiteness & Health in Transnational Context:

Toward a New Research Agenda

Jessie Daniels, PhD

CUNY-Graduate Center & Hunter College ASA - August 13, 2013

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colonialism, land & environmental health

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colonialism

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whiteness & health disparities industry

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“Whiteness obfuscates itself and its relationship to the

particular traits it is said to embody, including

temperance, rationality, bodily restraint, and industriousness.”

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whiteness & the human genome

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NIDA & the neuroscientific turn

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The dominant cultural image of “addiction”

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whiteness is integral to health

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critique whiteness & foster resistance

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Thank you!

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