God's Waiting Room : Racial Reckoning at Life's End
Golomski, Casey
ISBN 10: 1978840608 ISBN 13: 9781978840607
Published by Rutgers University Press, 2024
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Winner of the Elliott P. Skinner Award from the Association of Africanist Anthropology, part of the American Anthropological Association
Third Place in the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the American Anthropological Association's Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life's lessons, God's Waiting Room considers what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them. An innovation in creative nonfiction, Casey Golomski's story of his years of immersive research at a nursing home in South Africa, thirty years after the end of apartheid, is narrated as a one-day, room-by-room tour. The story is told in breathtakingly intimate and witty conversations with the home's residents and nurses, including the untold story of Nelson Mandela's Robben Island prison nurse, and readers learn how ageism, sexism, and racism intersect and impact health care both in South Africa and in the United States, as well as create conditions in which people primed to be enemies find grace despite the odds.
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For copyright reasons, this edition is not available in the South African Development Community and Kenya.
About the Author: CASEY GOLOMSKI is an associate professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire in Durham and lives in Medford, Massachusetts. He is the author of Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom.
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Title: God's Waiting Room : Racial Reckoning at ...
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New