Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery, edited by Constante González Groba, Ewa Barbara Luczak and Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis (Routledge, 2023)

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https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.202510154

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African American Literature, Black Studies, Afterlives of slavery

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The review offers a critical description and assessment of the main contents, theoretical frameworks and primary sources analyzed in the monograph Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacies of Plantation Slavery  (2023) authored by Constante González Groba, Ewa Barbara Luczak and Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis.

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2025-06-16

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Lado-Pazos, V. (2025). Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery, edited by Constante González Groba, Ewa Barbara Luczak and Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis (Routledge, 2023). Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 71, 231-235. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.202510154
Received 2024-01-22
Accepted 2024-11-06
Published 2025-06-16

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