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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Lawrence T., 1978- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
African Americans > Maryland > Baltimore > Social conditions.
African Americans > Segregation > Maryland > Baltimore > History.
African American neighborhoods > Maryland > Baltimore.
African Americans > Civil rights > Maryland > Baltimore.
Historical trauma > United States > African Americans > Case studies.
Segregation > United States > Case studies.
African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century.
African American neighborhoods.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Segregation.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Segregation.
Maryland > Baltimore.
United States.
2000-2099
Case studies.
History.
Genre:
Case studies.
History.
Physical Description:368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction to Racial Equity
  • Track 1. The Trump Card
  • Track 2: This Is America
  • Track 3: The "Negro Invasion"
  • Track 4: Ongoing Historical Trauma
  • Track 5: Black Neighborhood Destruction
  • Track 6: Make Black Neighborhoods Matter
  • Track 7: Healing the Black Butterfly
  • Track 8: Outro: Organize!