The black butterfly : the harmful politics of race and space in America / Lawrence T. Brown.
"This book discusses the long history of the deleterious effects of racial segregation on health in the United States. Author Brown puts Baltimore under a microscope because Baltimore was the first city in America to enact segregationist legislation and because it remains hypersegregated to this day...
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Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2021]
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Physical Description: | 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
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"This book discusses the long history of the deleterious effects of racial segregation on health in the United States. Author Brown puts Baltimore under a microscope because Baltimore was the first city in America to enact segregationist legislation and because it remains hypersegregated to this day. "Black butterfly" describes the shape of a demographic map that plots Baltimore's population by race: a white central axis with black wings east and west"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Call Number: | F189.B19 N395 2021 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781421439877 1421439875 |