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Book SynopsisArguing for a structurally competent approach to migrant health,
Embodied Politics shows how efforts to promote indigenous health may actually reinforce the same social and political economic forces, namely structural racism and neoliberalism, that are undermining the health of indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico and the United States.
Trade Review"
Embodied Politics: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities is timely, well-researched, and well-written. It was a pleasure to read and I look forward to using and recommending it in the future." -- Seth Holmes * author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States *
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Embodied Politics: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities is timely, well-researched, and well-written. It was a pleasure to read and I look forward to using and recommending it in the future." -- Seth Holmes * author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States *
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1 The Paradoxical Politics of Health Promotion
Chapter 2 Structural Violence, Migrant Activism, and Indigenous Health
Chapter 3 The “Mexican Model” of Health: Examining the Travels and Translations of Health Promotion
Chapter 4 Números, Números, Números: Making Health Programs
AccountableChapter 5 Cultural Sensitivity Training and the Cultural Politics of Teaching Tolerance
Chapter 6 La Lucha Sigue: Migrant Activism and the Ongoing Struggle to Promote Indigenous Health
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
