{"id":11286,"date":"2021-09-24T10:11:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T14:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?p=11286"},"modified":"2021-09-24T10:49:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T14:49:39","slug":"51-3-antidoting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/2021\/09\/24\/51-3-antidoting\/","title":{"rendered":"51.3, Antidoting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cover Art: Abu Qadim Haqq<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the introduction, \u201cVaccines, Antidotes, Cures\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBy now you must have grown tired of the easy poetics articulating racism and Covid-19 as \u201ctwin diseases\u201d or dual pandemics; or perhaps as \u201cmutual infections\u201d or symbiotic viruses. Such talk has been rampant over the last year, suggesting a desire to link concurrent phenomena in the language of mutuality, of ongoing social illness or catalytic metastasis. It is also the case that in times when mundane reality faces the pressure of social contradiction as well as the hot breath of literal violence, metaphor becomes a way of containing the incommensurable and of expressing the inexpressible and the incomplete.<\/p>\n

Understandably this particular set of metaphors works in more direct ways. For example, they operate to delink these phenomena of racism and the pandemic from a state-sponsored narrative of pure happenstance or randomness, which renders them as opportunistic infections instead of chronic illnesses. Historians, however, are likely to flinch at this casual blending of phenomena given their awareness of a history in which race and cultural differences are ever framed in terms of infections, disease and contagion.\u201d [more<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n

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Issue also includes the following:<\/p>\n