Antiblackness and Global Health

The narrative moves from the material and atmospheric traces of colonialism and enslavement in Freetown to the forms of knowledge presented in colonial archives and contemporary expert accounts of disease control and care practices. As the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed, health inequalities worldwide disproportionately affect people of African descent. Hirsch aims to equip critical scholars, medical and humanitarian practitioners, policymakers, and health activists with the tools and knowledge to challenge antiblackness in global health practice and politics. Antiblackness and Global Health argues that Black Studies can inform future research on medical interventions in Africa by unpacking postcolonial silences, centering Black perspectives, and highlighting the endurance of colonial infrastructures in the present.