Death by Design (eBook)

Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol

Sanyu A. Mojola (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
466 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97262-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Washington, DC, has the nations largest racial life expectancy gap, and it has experienced many of the nations worst epidemics, including maternal and infant mortality, homicide, heroin overdoses, and HIV/AIDS. These epidemics have disproportionately affected African Americans. Why and how does racial health inequality exist and persist? Starting from the citys founding in the late 1700s and drawing on a range of sourcesincluding archival material, life history interviews, and census, vital statistics, and disease surveillance datathis book illustrates how the physical, social, and policy design of the city contributes to the production and reproduction of disproportionate Black death.

Inhalt

Contents
 
List of Illustrations
 
Introduction
 
Part One. Racial Containment and Health in Historical Context
Overview
1. The First Era: 1790–1890
2. The Second Era: 1890–1950
3. The Third Era: 1950–Present
 
Part Two. Sex, Love, and HIV in a Syndemic Zone
Overview
4. The HIV Epidemic Among Gay and Bisexual Men
5. The HIV Epidemic Among Heterosexual Men, Women, and Trans Women
 
Part Three. The SAVA Syndemic: Drugs–HIV/AIDS–Homicide
Overview
6. First Comes Heroin: 1960–2016
7. Then Comes Cocaine: Late 1970s–2010s
8. Paying for a Habit: Commercial Sex and Drug Addiction Treatment
9. Homicide Redux and Life in a Syndemic Zone
 
Part Four. Mass Incarceration and Syndemic Amplification
Overview
10. Creating Mass Black Incarceration in DC
11. The DC Prison Syndemic and Community Amplification
 
Part Five. Racial Containment and the City's HIV/AIDS Epidemic Response
Overview
12. Intersectional Politics and the AIDS Epidemic
13. Controlling an Epidemic: The Successes and Limits of Technocratic Expertise
 
Conclusion
 
Appendix: Methodological Note
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: demographic disparity • Environmental Racism • epidemiological patterns • healthcare barriers • institutional harm • life expectancy gap • medical segregation • mortality inequity • Policy failure • public crisis • racial injustice • Social determinants • Structural Violence • systemic neglect • urban health
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97262-7 / 0520972627
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97262-9 / 9780520972629