Infectious Fear Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation

Name: Infectious Fear Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
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ISBN: 9780807859346

ISBN-10: 0807859346

ISBN-13: 9780807859346

Edition: 2009

Authors: Samuel Kelton Roberts, Samuel Kelton Roberts

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For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines how individuals and institutions--black and white, public and private--responded to the challenges of tuberculosis in a segregated society.Reactionary white politicians and health officials promoted "racial hygiene" and sought to control TB through Jim Crow quarantines, Roberts explains. African Americans, in turn, protested the segregated, overcrowded housing that was the true root of the…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English