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.
By:
George Lipsitz Foreword by:
Robin D.G. Kelley Imprint: University of California Press Country of Publication: United States Volume: 73 Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 635g ISBN:9780520404397 ISBN 10: 0520404394 Series:American Crossroads Pages: 328 Publication Date:27 August 2024 Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
George Lipsitz is Research Professor Emeritus of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.