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Frank LoPinto edited the blog post Medical Issues at African Burial Ground National Monument in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
To wrap up my experience at the African Burial Ground National Monument, I want to end on how despite all my anticipation of seeing parallels to Zone One, that I was able to see some examples of abuses during my trip that seemed to have been directly taken out of a page from Medical Apartheid.
The museum portion of the monument does an…
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Frank LoPinto edited the blog post Reflection on Trip to African Burial National Monument in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
In three different blog posts I will try to breakdown the similarities between Zone One in the treatment of capturing slaves, the medical issues slaves faced due to hard laborious work and how even in death, slaves were not able to find closure.
Over Thanksgiving break I ventured down to the African Burial Ground National Monument with my…[Read more]
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Frank LoPinto edited the blog post Parallels in the Discard of Bodies in Zone One and NYC’s Past in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
Gary’s lasso was sadly not the only parallel in the mishandling of bodies that I noticed between the treatment of slaves and stragglers while at the African Burial Ground National Monument. Another bothersome similarity that I noticed while on my trip was the methodology of disposing bodies in Zone One and how it resembled practices enslaved p…[Read more]
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Frank LoPinto wrote a new blog post Growth Through Finality: Seeing the Strides We’ve Made on The Collective Assignment in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
Overall, I feel that the progression our class has made while working on the collective assignment over the past few weeks has been amazing. I remember having my doubts about how this assignment would go when we […]
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Frank LoPinto edited the blog post The Subtle Similarities Between Gary & Slave Traders in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
While visiting the African Burial Ground National Monument I was able to realize that some of the subtler abuses of the stragglers in Zone One had a deeper historical base stemming from the mistreatment of slaves in NYC’s past. Many of us could pinpoint similarities in the way in which the stragglers were treated in Zone One to some of the other a…[Read more]
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Frank LoPinto wrote a new blog post An Unattainable Search For Consent in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
Coming to what will soon be the conclusion of this class, I want to revisit an issue that I touched upon previously in three other blog posts regarding my family’s possession of a human skull and how this class h […]
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Frank LoPinto edited the blog post Medical Voluntourism and Our Civic Duties As Students of Geneseo in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
In class a few weeks ago, we were lucky to have Dr. Muench and Dr. Kennison speak with our class about their experiences running different study abroad trips and the issues related to voluntourism. Voluntourism is the act of conducting volunteer work while abroad and was something my group briefly talked about yesterday in class when writing our…[Read more]
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Frank LoPinto wrote a new blog post First Hand Exposure To Racism in Medicine in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
(This post is a continuation of my last two and is related to my father’s experience with racism in medicine)
After finishing Fortune’s Bones, I Facetimed my father to explain what we learned the black com […]
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Frank LoPinto edited the blog post To Be Or Not To Be: The Turbulent Relationship One Has With Growing Up Possessing A Skull in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
In my last blog post, I began to discuss Fortunes Bones and the ethical issues I have personally struggled with as someone whose father possess a skull from his time in dental school. I feel that there is a need to clarify that although I may have made it seem like there was normalcy to growing up with a skull in my house, that this has not in…[Read more]
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Frank LoPinto edited the blog post Respecting Bodies in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
Throughout this semester we have continually been exposed to texts that reveal the horrors African Americans have been subject to in the name of medical research and education, with Fortunes Bones being a unique example of a combination of history and an author’s fictional interpretation of it. Marilyn Nelson uses poems and blurbs to educate r…[Read more]
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