Bull Hist Med. 2020;94(4):602-625. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2020.0085.
This essay explores how epidemics in the past and present give rise to distinctive, recurring racial scripts about bodies and identities, with sweeping racial effects beyond the Black experience. Using examples from cholera, influenza, tuberculosis, AIDS, and COVID-19, the essay provides a dramaturgical analysis of race and epidemics in four acts, moving from Act I, racial revelation; to Act II, the staging of bodies and places; to Act III, where race and disease is made into spectacle; and finally, Act IV, in which racial boundaries are fixed, repaired, or made anew in the response to the racial dynamics revealed by epidemics. Focusing primarily on North America but touching on global racial narratives, the essay concludes with reflections on the writers and producers of these racialized dramas, and a discussion of why these racialized repertoires have endured.
这篇文章探讨了过去和现在的流行病如何引发关于身体和身份的独特、反复出现的种族剧本，对非裔经历之外的人群产生广泛的种族影响。本文使用了从霍乱、流感、肺结核、艾滋病到 COVID-19 的例子，从种族揭示（Act I）、身体和场所的舞台化（Act II）、种族和疾病的奇观化（Act III），最后到种族边界的固定、修复或重塑（Act IV），分四幕对种族和流行病进行了戏剧性分析。本文主要聚焦于北美，但也涉及全球的种族叙事，最后反思了这些种族化戏剧的创作者，并讨论了为什么这些种族化剧本能够经久不衰。
