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Sickening : anti-Black racism and health disparities in the United States / Anne Pollock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pollock, Anne, 1975- author.
- Series:
- ProQuest Ebook Central.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Health and hygiene.
- African Americans--Medical care.
- Discrimination in medical care--United States.
- Discrimination in medical care.
- Health services accessibility.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 212 pages) ; illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- "An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-6616-8
- OCLC:
- 1257315501
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