Full 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.
Contents
Contents
Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Housing, Health, and Proximity to Toxicity
PART I: WHO HURTS?
1 Save the Children: Precautionary Principles for Housing and Health Justice
2 "Livin' in the Red": Housing as a Health Problem and Health as a Housing Problem
3 If You're Ready: Responding to Health and Housing Emergencies
PART II: WHAT HURTS?
4 Cash in Your Face: Appraisals, Assessments, and Predatory Extraction
5 If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another: Gender, Housing, Health, and Mass Incarceration
6 Born under a Bad Sign: Race-Based Risk Assessment in Insurance, Housing, and Health
PART III: WHAT HELPS?
7 Wade in the Water: An Active Engaged Public Sphere for Health and Housing Justice
8 Everything Is Everything: Health and Housing as Human Rights and Public Goods
9 Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I): The Bitter but Beautiful Struggle
Notes
Works Cited
Index
