{"id":47212,"date":"2016-05-30T16:40:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47212"},"modified":"2016-05-30T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T16:40:03","slug":"a-change-of-heart-racial-politics-scientific-metaphor-and-coverage-of-1968-interracial-heart-transplants-in-the-african-american-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47212","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Change of Heart\u2019: Racial Politics, Scientific Metaphor and Coverage of 1968 Interracial Heart Transplants in the African American Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/shm\/hkw052\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018A Change of Heart\u2019: Racial Politics, Scientific Metaphor and Coverage of 1968 Interracial Heart Transplants in the African American Press<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shm.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social History of Medicine<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online: 2016-05-26<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/shm\/hkw052\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/shm\/hkw052<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:mkoretz1@jhmi.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maya Overby Koretzky<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Johns Hopkins Institute for the History of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper explores the African American response to an <a href=\"http:\/\/bulletin.facs.org\/2012\/01\/sanctity-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">interracial heart transplant in 1968<\/a> through a close reading of the black newspaper press. This methodological approach provides a window into African American perceptions of physiological difference between the races, or lack thereof, as it pertained to both personal identity and race politics. Coverage of the first interracial heart transplant, which occurred in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apartheid\" target=\"_blank\">apartheid South Africa<\/a>, was multifaceted. Newspapers lauded the transplant as evidence of physiological race equality while simultaneously mobilising the language of differing \u2018black\u2019 and \u2018white\u2019 hearts to critique racist politics through the metaphor of a \u2018change of heart\u2019. While interracial transplant created the opportunity for such political commentary, its material reality\u2014potential exploitation of black bodies for white gain\u2014was increasingly a cause for concern, especially after a contentious heart transplant from a black to a white man in May 1968 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">American South<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/shm.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2016\/05\/26\/shm.hkw052.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018A Change of Heart\u2019: Racial Politics, Scientific Metaphor and Coverage of 1968 Interracial Heart Transplants in the African American Press Social History of Medicine Published online: 2016-05-26 DOI: 10.1093\/shm\/hkw052 Maya Overby Koretzky Johns Hopkins Institute for the History of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland This paper explores the African American response to an interracial heart transplant in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,2039,8,20],"tags":[23935,23932,23933,23934,23930,23931,23929,15303],"class_list":["post-47212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-b-d-and-tucker-v-lower","tag-bruce-o-tucker","tag-bruce-tucker","tag-dick-lower","tag-maya-koretzky","tag-maya-o-koretzky","tag-maya-overby-koretzky","tag-social-history-of-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47213,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47212\/revisions\/47213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}