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

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

"An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century"--

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Bibliographic Details
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:
  • Terrorism: the deaths of Black postal workers in the 2001 anthrax attacks
  • Un/natural disaster: chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina
  • Mass incarceration: on the suspended sentences of the Scott sisters
  • Environmental racism: protecting GM's machines while abandoning Flint's people
  • Police brutality: enforcing segregation at a pool party
  • Reproductive injustice: Serena Williams's birth story.

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