A City without Care : 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Health Care Activism in New Orleans /

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"New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It's also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity for 300 years of the city's history, beginning at its founding in 171...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McQueeney, Kevin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Race relations.
Discrimination in medical care.
African Americans > Segregation.
African Americans > Medical care.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
African Americans > Segregation > Louisiana > New Orleans.
African Americans > Medical care > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Discrimination in medical care > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It's also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity for 300 years of the city's history, beginning at its founding in 1718. McQueeney argues that this racist system emerged as a key component of the slave-based economy in the city, which quickly became institutionalized with the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. He also shows that, despite legislation and court victories in the Civil Rights era, an apartheid health care system still exists today"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (286 pages): illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ;
ISBN:9781469673943

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