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Blood: The Stuff of Life (2013)

par Lawrence Hill

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Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.

With the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.

Blood runs red through every person's arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but its cultural and social representations have divided us perennially. Blood pulses through religion, literature, and the visual arts. Every time it pools or spills, we learn a little more about what brings human beings together and what pulls us apart. For centuries, perceptions of difference in our blood have separated people on the basis of gender, race, class, and nation. Ideas about blood purity have spawned rules about who gets to belong to a family or cultural group, who enjoys the rights of citizenship and nationality, what privileges one can expect to be granted or denied, whether you inherit poverty or the right to rule over the masses, what constitutes fair play in sport, and what defines a person's identity.

Blood: The Stuff of Life is a bold meditation on blood as an historical and contemporary marker of identity, belonging, gender, race, class, citizenship, athletic superiority, and nationhood.

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An interesting look at blood, race, identity and humanity from Lawrence Hill. ( )
  katebrarian | Jul 28, 2020 |
This book is comprised of the Massey Lectures which will be broadcast November 2013 on CBC Radio’s marvelous Ideas series. For many years I listened to Ideas while marking student papers late in the evening. In this book, Lawrence examines all the ramifications blood holds for human beings in terms of nationality, race, athletics, genealogy, class, inheritance, gender, and biology. ( )
  ShelleyAlberta | Jun 4, 2016 |
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"Sometimes I look at people and wonder if they are related to me. I do this in public places and privates spaces...I have indulged in this curious pastime since I was eight years old, when I first understood that all but one of my mother's family had become white."
-- Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, The Sweeter the Juice

"There is no expiation except with blood."
-- Sipra, the ancient Judaic commentary on Leviticus
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For my son, Andrew Raymond Savoie Hill,
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In the 1904 Olympic marathon held during the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, the first man to cross the finish line was disqualified because he was found to have ridden in a car for part of the race. The second finisher was a British-born American runner by the name of Thomas Hicks. Hicks had run out of gas (pardon the pun) after ten miles (slightly more than a third of the way through the race) and had wanted to give up. His trainers pushed him on. They gave him two doses of strychnine, which is rat poison, but which in low doses also serves as a stimulant. He was also given raw egg white and a shot of brandy. Hicks had to be carried across the finish line and revived by doctors afterwards. Under current rules, Hicks would have been disqualified. But at the 1904 Olympics, he was awarded the gold medal.
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History. Science. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:

Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.

With the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.

Blood runs red through every person's arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but its cultural and social representations have divided us perennially. Blood pulses through religion, literature, and the visual arts. Every time it pools or spills, we learn a little more about what brings human beings together and what pulls us apart. For centuries, perceptions of difference in our blood have separated people on the basis of gender, race, class, and nation. Ideas about blood purity have spawned rules about who gets to belong to a family or cultural group, who enjoys the rights of citizenship and nationality, what privileges one can expect to be granted or denied, whether you inherit poverty or the right to rule over the masses, what constitutes fair play in sport, and what defines a person's identity.

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