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March 2025 Meeting Notes: Redman’s Bone Rooms

March 26, 2025

Our March 2025 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, March 26 at 5:30pm completely over Zoom. (For our next meeting in April, we plan to meet once again in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524, with options for members to join … Read more

Feb. 2024 Meeting: Davis’s Reproductive Injustice

March 1, 2024

Our February 2024 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, February 28 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis (NYU Press, 2019). Specifically, we discussed: … Read more

Feb. 2023 Meeting: Owens’s Medical Bondage

February 23, 2023

Our February LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, February 22 at 5:30pm in Greenlaw 225 and via Zoom. We discussed Deirdre Cooper Owens’s 2017 monograph, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology from UGA Press. Specifically, we … Read more

Jan. 2023 Meeting: De-Briefing from MLA 2023

January 31, 2023

Our first LMCC meeting for the spring 2023 semester took place on Wednesday, January 25 at 5:30pm in Greenlaw 509 and via Zoom. LMCC co-directors Rachel Warner and Paul Blom recently organized and led a panel at the MLA 2023 … Read more

Jan. 2022 Meeting: Carter’s The Heart of Whiteness

January 28, 2022

Our January 2022 meeting (and our first meeting of the spring 2022 semester) for LMCC took place on Wed. Jan. 26 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We discussed Julian B. Carter’s 2007 monograph from Duke University Press, The Heart of … Read more

Oct. 2021 Meeting: Washington’s Medical Apartheid

October 30, 2021

Our October, 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Oct. 27 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We focused on Harriet A. Washington’s 2006 monograph Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to … Read more

Sept. 2021 Meeting: Ordover’s American Eugenics

September 29, 2021

Our September, 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Sept. 29 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We focused on Nancy Ordover‘s 2003 monograph American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism, especially the introduction and an additional … Read more

April 2021 Meeting: Schuller’s The Biopolitics of Feeling

April 28, 2021

Our April, 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. April 28 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We focused on Kyla Schuller’s 2018 monograph The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century, especially the introduction, “Sentimental … Read more

March 2021 Meeting: Hogarth’s Medicalizing Blackness

March 31, 2021

Our March, 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. March 31 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We focused on Rana A. Hogarth’s Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840, especially: Prologue Introduction An additional chapter of … Read more

Sept. 2020 Meeting: Knadler’s Vitality Politics

September 30, 2020

Our September, 2020 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Sept. 30 at 5:30pm via Zoom. We focused on Stephen Knadler’s Vitality Politics: Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation, especially the introduction, “Ill-Defined Emancipations.” If you missed the … Read more