Radical Health
Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2023
232 pages
978-1-4780-2739-3 (ISBN)
Description
Julie Avril Minich examines Latinx artistic engagements with health politics to present alternate visions of health and wellbeing among the Latinx community.
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10/2023
Duke University Press
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Julie Avril Minich is Associate Professor of English and Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, coeditor of Crip Genealogies, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Radical Health/Radical Unwellness 1
1. Unprotected Texts: Queer Latinx Expression in the Aftermath of AIDS 24
2. Sugar, Shame, Love: Diabetic Latinidades 52
3. Healing Without a Cure: Radical Health and Racialized Gender Violence 82
4. Mental Health and Migrant Justice: Family Separation and Reimagining Wellness 116
Remedio: The Navigator 150
Notes 167
References 187
Index 207
Introduction: Radical Health/Radical Unwellness 1
1. Unprotected Texts: Queer Latinx Expression in the Aftermath of AIDS 24
2. Sugar, Shame, Love: Diabetic Latinidades 52
3. Healing Without a Cure: Radical Health and Racialized Gender Violence 82
4. Mental Health and Migrant Justice: Family Separation and Reimagining Wellness 116
Remedio: The Navigator 150
Notes 167
References 187
Index 207
