NEW in CASBS's partnership w/ @laviedesidees.bsky.social & its English language site, Books & Ideas Review of "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence and the Invention of a Disease." Author @beliso-dejesus.bsky.social worked on the book as a 2021-22 CASBS fellow booksandideas.net/The-Pseudosc...

The Pseudoscience that Shieldied Police Violence

About: Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease, Duke University

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"At the heart of Excited Delirium is a direct challenge to medicalized narratives that both prime Black people for premature death and scientifically blame them for dying." Kevin Morris reviews @beliso-dejesus.bsky.social's latest book for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2025/05/20/t...

The Medical Myths of State Violence - The Massachusetts Review

Across twelve chapters, Beliso-De Jesús presents the history of medicalized state-sanctioned violence via excited delirium syndrome through a compelling combination of historiography, ethnography, and...

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“Excited Delirium” - An enthralling anthropological text that is deeply relevant to a long-term project I’ve been writing on inquests, medical examiners, and police power. Incredible work, @beliso-dejesus.bsky.social! www.dukeupress.edu/excited-deli...

Haymarket Books@haymarketbooks.org · 2y ago

What are you reading this weekend?

Catch authors @palomacg.bsky.social , @arlenedavila.bsky.social and @beliso-dejesus.bsky.social at events in February! https://buff.ly/3EgGb4t

Monday at Intellectual Publics 6:30pm ET!! Aisha Beliso-De Jesús @beliso-dejesus.bsky.social & Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez @dryofiggy.bsky.social in conversation on Beliso-De Jesús's new @dukepress.bsky.social book "Excited Delirium." www.gc.cuny.edu/events/excit... It's going to be so deep & smart!

Excited Delirium

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús and Yomaira C.

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The man who invented the disease had been a self-styled expert on Santería in Miami. Beliso-De Jesús tracks the continuities in his racist inventions while also telling the story of her own hauntings following the diagnosis from case to case in moving diary interludes. @dukepress.bsky.social

Aisha Beliso-De Jesús' book tell the story of an invented disease "excited delirium" not recognized by the AMA or other medical authorities, but used regularly to explain Black and Brown people dying in police custody. The panel on it at AAA in Tampa last week was fantastic. It's a powerful book!

I'm excited for this Intellectual Publics @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social conversation between Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús & @dryofiggy.bsky.social on Beliso-De Jesús' "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease." Mon Dec 9 at 6:30pm ET Via Zoom. RSVP bit.ly/exciteddelir...