{"product_id":"a-city-without-care-kevin-mcqueeney-9781469673929","title":"A City without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Health Care Activism in New Orleans","description":"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 era, a segregated health care system still exists today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to charting this history of neglect, McQueeney also suggests pathways to fix the deeply entrenched inequities, taking inspiration from the \"long civil rights\" framework and reconstructing the fight for improved health and access to care that started long before the boycotts, sit-ins, and marches of the 1950s and 1960s. In telling the history of how New Orleans has treated its Black citizens in its hospitals, McQueeney uncovers the broader story of how urban centers across the country have ignored Black Americans and their health needs for the entire history of the nation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin McQueeney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469673924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469673929\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d","brand":"Kevin McQueeney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44132612604159,"sku":"9781469673929","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b90040f2-67c1-4929-b594-8e90d5eeb90b.jpg?v=1687481244","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-city-without-care-kevin-mcqueeney-9781469673929","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}