Radical Health

Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture

Julie Avril Minich

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Duke University Press
27 October 2023

Social & cultural history; Disability: social aspects; Ethnic studies; Health systems & services; Popular medicine & health

In Radical Health Julie Avril Minich examines the potential of Latinx expressive culture to intervene in contemporary health politics, elaborating how Latinx artists have critiqued ideologies of health that frame wellbeing in terms of personal behavior. Within this framework, poor health-obesity, asthma, diabetes, STIs, addiction, and high-risk pregnancies-is attributed to irresponsible lifestyle choices among the racialized poor. Countering this, Latinx writers and visual artists envision health not as individual duty but as communal responsibility. Bringing a disability justice approach to questions of health access and equity, Minich locates a concept of radical health within the work of Latinx artists, including the poetry of Rafael Campo, the music of Hurray for the Riff Raff, the fiction of Angie Cruz, and the performance art of Virginia Grise. Radical health operates as a modality that both challenges the stigma of unhealth and protests the social conditions that give rise to racial health disparities. Elaborating this modality, Minich claims a critical role for Latinx artists in addressing the structural racism in public health.

By: Julie Avril Minich
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781478020479
ISBN 10: 1478020474
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 27 October 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

Reviews for Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture

Radical Health is a necessary and timely intervention in the fields of critical race and disability studies. Julie Avril Minich challenges us to nuance our approaches to health as a structural and social issue. This book is immensely valuable to anyone studying health in the United States today, especially in the wake of the mass disablement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. -- Sami Schalk, author of * Black Disability Politics *