Sickening - Anti-black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States

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

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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’ Birth Story
Conclusion
Notes
Index

About the author

Anne Pollock is professor of global health and social medicine at King’s College London. She is author of Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference and Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery. 

Product details

• Authors: Anne Pollock
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781517911720
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1172-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General