Expecting Inequity: Race, Class and Reproductive Justice

Studies across a range of measures of well-being show that class privilege does not necessarily immunize underrepresented populations from the structures and processes that produce excess morbidity and mortality in people, communities and populations without racial privilege. These facts invite a consideration of the complex relationship between race and class in the United States. They invite a theorization of the simultaneous inclusion and exclusion that characterizes class-privileged underrepresented populations. In this virtual talk, Khiara M. Bridges, PhD, will discuss her plan to write an ethnography of the fraught reproduction of middle- and upper middle- class Black women in the United States. The ethnography will interrogate both how class privilege affects the experience of race in the United States as well as how race impacts the experience of class privilege.

Registration is required for the event. An email with a link to the webinar will be sent to you.

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The Embodied Inequality: Unpacking the Impact of Race & Racism on Health series builds on important work documenting extensive health disparities. This interdisciplinary lecture series explores why race is so consequential for health outcomes and how scholars, practitioners, and community groups can intervene to improve health outcomes for vulnerable communities.

The Annual Joseph S. Begando Keynote Lecture sponsored by the Department of Medical Education brings distinguished scholars in the Health Humanities to the UIC community to explore pressing social issues relating to health, medicine, disability and illness.