Title A city without care : 300 years of racism, health disparities, and healthcare activism in New Orleans / Kevin McQueeney

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) ; illustrations, maps, photographs Series Studies in social medicine Studies in social medicine. Contents Introduction -- Health and healt care in the era of slavery, 1718-1843 -- The growth of the slave-based health care economy, 1800-1861 -- The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow health care, 1862-1900 -- A white medical district, 1900-1940 -- Jim Crow Black health care, 1927-1950 -- Health care in the era of civil rights and resistance, 1950-1968 -- Two-tiered health care, 1965-1974 -- Black health care in the Age of Abandonment, 1975-2005 -- Conclusion : Black health and health care after Katrina Summary "New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It's also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity for 300 years of the city's history, beginning at its founding in 1718. McQueeney argues that this racist system emerged as a key component of the slave-based economy in the city, which quickly became institutionalized with the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. He also shows that, despite legislation and court victories in the Civil Rights era, an apartheid health care system still exists today"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliograpical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2023) Subject Discrimination in medical care -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History African Americans -- Medical care -- Louisiana -- New Orleans African Americans -- Segregation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies African Americans -- Medical care African Americans -- Segregation Discrimination in medical care Race relations Slavery -- Economic aspects Social services & welfare, criminology. Health and Wellbeing. SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1469673940 9781469673943

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