From Vaccine to Visa Apartheid, How AntiBlackness Persists in Global Health.

Abstract

Global health evolved from colonial medicine and hence deeply rooted in the white supremacy mindset. Anti-Blackness is an inescapable consequence. Definitions of anti-Blackness revolve around the positioning of Black people, their cultural practices and knowledge as inferior, the conscious and unconscious dehumanization and discrimination of Black bodies, a disdain for Black people and their lived experiences, the disenfranchisement of Black people, but above all, a system of beliefs and practices that erode their humanity.