Description: 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.
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EAN: 9781478030553
UPC: 9781478030553
ISBN: 9781478030553
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Book Title: Excited Delirium : Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Sociology / General, Law Enforcement, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
