The Danger Zone Is Everywhere (eBook)

How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth

George Lipsitz (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
328 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40441-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Compellingly argues that good health is as much social as it is biological, and that the racial health gap and the racial wealth gap are mutually constitutive.
 
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere shows that housing insecurity and the poor health associated with it are central components of an unjust, destructive, and deadly racial order. Housing discrimination is a civil and economic injustice, but it is also a menace to public health. 
 
With this book, George Lipsitz reveals how the injuries of housing discrimination are augmented by racial bias in home appraisals and tax assessments, by the disparate racialized effects of policing, sentencing, and parole, and by the ways in which algorithms in insurance and other spheres associate race with risk. But The Danger Zone Is Everywhere also highlights new practices emerging in health care and the law, emphasizing how grassroots community mobilizations are creating an active and engaged public sphere constituency promoting new forms of legislation, litigation, and organization for social justice.

Inhalt

Contents

Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction: Housing, Health, and Proximity to Toxicity 

PART I: WHO HURTS?
1 Save the Children: Precautionary Principles for Housing and Health Justice 
2 “Livin’ in the Red”: Housing as a Health Problem and Health as a Housing Problem 
3 If You’re Ready: Responding to Health and Housing Emergencies 

PART II: WHAT HURTS?
4 Cash in Your Face: Appraisals, Assessments, and Predatory Extraction 
5 If It Ain’t One Thing, It’s Another: Gender, Housing, Health, and Mass Incarceration
6 Born under a Bad Sign: Race-Based Risk Assessment in Insurance, Housing, and Health 

PART III: WHAT HELPS?
7 Wade in the Water: An Active Engaged Public Sphere for Health and Housing Justice 
8 Everything Is Everything: Health and Housing as Human Rights and Public Goods 
9 Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I): The Bitter but Beautiful Struggle 

Notes 
Works Cited 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2024
• Reihe/Serie: American Crossroads
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Baurecht (privat)
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Activist • Advocacy • Class • Classism • Community • Crisis • Cultural • Discrimination • Ethnic • Homeless • Injustice • Justice • neighborhood • Oppression • Organizing • policing • Poverty • racialization in housing • Racism • racism in health • radical change • red lining • Social • Studies • unhoused
• ISBN-10: 0-520-40441-6 / 0520404416
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-40441-0 / 9780520404410