In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race

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Although it strikes individuals from a variety of backgrounds, sickle cell anemia has always been known as a "black" disease in America. "In the Blood" shows how the disease was used to promote the superiority of racial purity, to characterize the black body as contaminated, and even to support the notion that modern humans evolved from multiple origins.