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The Danger Zone Is Everywhere

How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth Volume 73

George Lipsitz 

(Author)

Robin D G Kelley 

(Foreword by)
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Description

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.

Product Details

PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publish DateAugust 27, 2024
Pages328
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9780520404397
Dimensions9.0 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches | 1.4 pounds

About the Author

George Lipsitz is Research Professor Emeritus of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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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"

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