Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization / Khiara M. Bridges.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011], ©2011.

xi, 293 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alpha Hospital : unique, but not singular -- Pregnancy, Medicaid, state regulations, and legal subjection -- The production of unruly bodies -- The "primitive pelvis," racial folklore, and atavism in contemporary form of medical disenfranchisement -- The curious case of the "Alpha patient population" -- Wily patients, welfare queens, and the reiteration of race.