4.7 [Part Two] Antonio Valladares on the Origins of Alternative Medicine and Wellness Culture, White Supremacy, World Fairs, and Militant Yoga.

Part Two of Three with Antonio Valladares On this episode we sit down with NYC-based fitness expert Antonio Valladares who has been involved with the North American fitness and health scene for decades!  Antonio speaks out against problematic wellness, fitness and health approaches being touted today by influencers, grifters, and business peoples. Listen in as Antonio lays the North American historical foundations to much of the fitness and wellness approaches that now exist in mainstream western culture. Antonio is currently in nursing school and is now dedicating time to studying and writing. 

References:

• Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America 1880- 1920 by Clifford Putney

• The Athletic Crusade Sport and American Cultural Imperialism by Gerald R. Gems 

• Assimilationist Athletics: Indian Boarding Schools, Sports, and the American Empire by Cameron Tardif 

• To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools by John Bloom 

• Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition by Nancy J. Parezo, Don D. Fowler https://humanzoos.org/ 

• Preserving the White Man’s Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race and the Transformation of American Conservatism by Joshua A. Lynn 

• Professionals and populists: the making of a free market for medicine in the United States, 1787–1860 by Jacob Habinek, Heather A Haveman https://academic.oup.com/ser/article/17/1/81/5306619?login=false 

• Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice by Mark Singleton 

• The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich by George Mosse 

• Organic Farming in Nazi Germany: The Politics of Biodynamic Agriculture, 1933-1945 by Peter Staudenmaier https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275144794_Organic_Farming_in_Nazi_Germany_The_Politics_of_Biodynamic_Agriculture_1933-1945

• Organic Farming and New Age Spirituality by Peter Staudenmaier: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Staudenmaier 

• America’s Deadly Flirtation with Antiscience and the Medical Freedom Movement by Peter J. Hotez https://www.jci.org/articles/view/149072