Sickening : anti-Black racism and health disparities in the United States

Sickening : anti-Black racism and health disparities in the United States /

A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. From the spike in chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina to the lack of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis--and even the life-threatening childbirth experience f...

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Main Author: Pollock, Anne, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
Subjects:
African Americans > Medical care.
African Americans > Health and hygiene.
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Terrorism: the deaths of Black postal workers in the 2001 anthrax attacks
  • 2. Un/natural disaster: chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina
  • 3. Mass incarceration: on the suspended sentences of the Scott sisters
  • 4. Environmental racism: protecting GM's machines while abandoning Flint's people
  • 5. Police brutality: enforcing segregation at a pool party
  • 6. Reproductive injustice: Serena Williams's birth story.

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