Description: City Without Care : 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Healthcare Activism in New Orleans, Paperback by Mcqueeney, Kevin, ISBN 1469673924, ISBN-13 9781469673929, Brand New, Free shipping in the US New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It has also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity from the city's founding in the early eighteenth century through three centuries to the present. He argues that racist health disparities emerged as a key component of the city's slave-based economy and quickly became institutionalized with the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. McQueeney also shows that, despite legislation and court victories in the civil rights era, a segregated health care system still exists today. In addition to charting this history of neglect, McQueeney also suggests pathways to fix the deeply entrenched inequities, taking inspiration from the "long civil rights" framework and reconstructing the fight for improved health and access to care that started long before the boycotts, sit-ins, and marches of the 1950s and 1960s. In telling the history of how New Orleans has treated its Black citizens in its hospitals, McQueeney uncovers the broader story of how urban centers across the country have ignored Black Americans and their health needs for the entire history of the nation.
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Book Title: City Without Care : 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and
Number of Pages: 286 Pages
Publication Name: City Without Care : 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Health Care Activism in New Orleans
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Subject: Public Health, Health Policy, Disease & Health Issues, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 14.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical
Author: Kevin Mcqueeney
Series: Studies in Social Medicine Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
