Special issue: “The Politics of Uneven Reproduction in the African Diaspora” edited by Dana‐Ain Davis and Chiara Quagliariello

Journal article

Using ethnographic vignettes from my doctoral research, this article contextualizes and analyses Britain's Black maternal health crisis— a crisis of reproductive racism— through a Black feminist lens. The inequities Black mothers face has a strong Black (and) feminist history of being analyzed in relation to the politics of anti‐Black racism and misogynoir as they are upheld and sanctioned by the State and the maternity services. This article, therefore, positions Black feminist consciousness as the overarching ethical and analytical framework that contemporary researchers must (re)turn to when studying reproductive racism in Britain. In light of this argument, I draw attention to the Black feminist articulations of racism, uneven reproduction, and reproductive necropolitics (introducing the idea of “necropolitical mythopoeia”), arguing that they are robust analytical tools that can kickstart the epistemological (r)evolution that is desperately needed in the British research landscape.

Authors: Banda, P

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Wiley
• Journal: Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for the Analysis of Health
• Article number: e70076
• Publication date: 2026-06-14
• Acceptance date: 2026-04-13
• DOI: 10.1111/maq.70076
• EISSN: 1548-1387
• ISSN: 0745-5194
• Language: English