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From Enslavement to COVID-19
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Focusing on four historical periods—enslavement, emancipation, the industrial era, and the digital age—Trotter argues that rather than being anomalous, the fight for adequate health care and beneficial social service policies follows a similar trajectory as the movement of Black people from enslavement to freedom. Trotter emphasizes how the labor requirements of work shaped the African American encounter with disease, how white medical professionals developed stereotypes about the susceptibility of Black people to sickness, and how those professionals denied essential medical care to the country’s most vulnerable. From Enslavement to COVID-19 also highlights how people of African descent drew on their legacy of activism and community-building to improve their physical and mental conditions by creating programs and strategies to combat inequality and discrimination in the nation’s health care system.
Product details
Number of Pages:
228
Release Date:
2025-10-07
Publication Date:
2025-10-07
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1469690845
ISBN13:
9781469690841
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Weight:
553 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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