New Book Review + Recording of the Halley Reading

By Staff

Two-for-Thursday today with a review from Kevin Morris of Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease by Aisha Beliso-De Jesús:

“In Excited Delirium (Duke UP, 2024), anthropologist Aisha Beliso-De Jesús explores how a long history of medicalizing state-sanctioned violence has contributed to the carceral arrangements that contextualize Black and Brown life in the U.S. The ongoing surveillance, confinement, and brutalization of Black bodies have long operated in tandem with medical theories that dehumanize Black people and justify their subjection to unremitting violence.”

Read more on our blog here.

And our recording of the Halley Prize Reading with Chard deNiord is up on our Jukebox and YouTube channel, and watchable below: