A City without Care
Kevin McQueeney
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A City without Care

300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Health Care Activism in New Orleans

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New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It has also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity from the city’s founding in the early eighteenth century through three centuries to the present. He argues that racist health disparities emerged as a key component of the city’s slave-based economy and quickly became institutionalized with the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. McQueeney also shows that, despite legislation and court victories in the civil rights...