The Danger Zone Is Everywhere
How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth
$85.90
- Paperback
328 pages
- Release Date
23 September 2024
Summary
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, Georg…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520404403 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520404408 |
| Author: | George Lipsitz, Robin D.G. Kelley |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 23 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
| Series: | American Crossroads |
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“Those who choose to spend time with this hefty, career-defining book will have the chance to engage with not only Lipsitz’s intellect but with his obvious appreciation for the humanity, and not only the vexing injustices, of life in the United States.”
* Journal of the American Planning Association *About The Author
George Lipsitz
George Lipsitz is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of over a dozen books and recipient of the Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship.
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