Death by Design

Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-520-42116-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 466 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Washington, DC, has the nation's largest racial life expectancy gap, and it has experienced many of the nation's worst epidemics, including maternal and infant mortality, homicide, heroin overdoses, and HIV/AIDS. These epidemics have disproportionately affected African Americans. Why and how does racial health inequality exist and persist? Starting from the city's founding in the late 1700s and drawing on a range of sources—including archival material, life history interviews, and census, vital statistics, and disease surveillance data—this book illustrates how the physical, social, and policy design of the city contributes to the production and reproduction of disproportionate Black death.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mojola, Sanyu A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part One. Racial Containment and Health in Historical Context
Overview
1. The First Era: 1790–1890
2. The Second Era: 1890–1950
3. The Third Era: 1950–Present

Part Two. Sex, Love, and HIV in a Syndemic Zone
Overview
4. The HIV Epidemic Among Gay and Bisexual Men
5. The HIV Epidemic Among Heterosexual Men, Women, and Trans Women

Part Three. The SAVA Syndemic: Drugs–HIV/AIDS–Homicide
Overview
6. First Comes Heroin: 1960–2016
7. Then Comes Cocaine: Late 1970s–2010s
8. Paying for a Habit: Commercial Sex and Drug Addiction Treatment
9. Homicide Redux and Life in a Syndemic Zone

Part Four. Mass Incarceration and Syndemic Amplification
Overview
10. Creating Mass Black Incarceration in DC
11. The DC Prison Syndemic and Community Amplification

Part Five. Racial Containment and the City's HIV/AIDS Epidemic Response
Overview
12. Intersectional Politics and the AIDS Epidemic
13. Controlling an Epidemic: The Successes and Limits of Technocratic Expertise

Conclusion

Appendix: Methodological Note
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sanyu A. Mojola is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and Maurice P. During Professor of Demographic Studies at Princeton University. She directed Princeton's Office of Population Research from 2020 to 2024.