Excited Delirium - Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús

Excited Delirium

Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3055-3 (ISBN)
28,65 inkl. MwSt
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines the emergence of “excited delirium syndrome” in the 1980s, a fabricated medical diagnosis used to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities in the United States.
In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly to describe the deaths of Black men and women during interactions with police. Police and medical examiners claimed that Black people with so-called excited delirium exhibited superhuman strength induced from narcotics abuse. It was fatal heart failure that killed them, examiners said, not forceful police restraints. In Excited Delirium, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines this fabricated medical diagnosis and its use to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities. Exposing excited delirium syndrome’s flawed diagnostic criteria, she outlines its inextricable ties to the criminalization of Afro-Latiné religions. Beliso-De Jesús demonstrates that it is yet a further example of the systemic racism that pervades law enforcement in which the culpability for state violence is shifted from the state onto its victims. In so doing, she furthers understanding of the complex layers of medicalized state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States.

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús is Olden Street Professor of American Studies at Princeton University and author of Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion.

Author’s Note: In Warning . . .  xi
Introduction: Haunted  1
Journal Entry: Monday, September 20, 2021  10
Emerald Hills, California
1. Nightmares  13
Journal Entry: Saturday, September 25, 2021  26
San Francisco, California
2. Bodies  20
Journal Entry: Saturday, October 2, 2021  43
Antioch, California
3. Murdered  46
Journal Entry: Tuesday, November 2, 2021  58
Stanford, California
4. Manic  60
Journal Entry: Wednesday, October 13, 2021  74
Emerald Hills, California
5. Panicked  77
Journal Entry: Friday, December 17, 2021  95
Stanford, California
6. Tormented  98
Journal Entry: Wednesday, March 16, 2022  117
Stanford, California
7. Brutalized  121
Journal Entry: Tuesday, December 2, 2021  134
Stanford, California
8. Excited  137
Journal Entry: Saturday, January 8, 2022  150
Oakland, California
9. Forced  152
Journal Entry: Tuesday, March 22, 2022  166
Stanford, California
10. Delirious  169
Journal Entry: Sunday, April 10, 2022  182
Emerald Hills, California
11. Conjured  184
Journal Entry: Wednesday, May 25, 2022  195
Antioch, California
12. Empower  197
Journal Entry: Thursday, September 8, 2022  210
Princeton, New Jersey
Afterword  211
Modupué  215
Acknowledgments  219
Glossary  221
Notes  227
Bibliography  273
Index  293
 

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 2 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4780-3055-0 / 1478030550
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-3055-3 / 9781478030553
Zustand Neuware
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