THE KENT FAMILY ANTHROPOLOGY SPEAKER SERIES
Between Womb and Home: Pregnancy, NICUs, and the Afterlife of Slavery
Presented by: The UCF Department of Anthropology
Dana-Ain Davis, Ph.D., MPH
Neonatal Intensive Care Units
(NICUs) are reified for their technological prowess because of how they shift notions of viability and saving. In this talk, Davis explores how race is negotiated within the space of the NICU. She takes up this inquiry to situate NICUs not only as a saving technology but also as a space where disparate practices of race are enacted. This ethnographic account draws upon professional black women's experiences and their relationship to the NICUs.
Co-sponsored by: Women's and Gender Studies Program, School
of Social Work, Department of Sociology, the Committee on Diversity, and the College of
Health and Public Affairs
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