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- Title
Sanitation Inequity and the Cumulative Effects of Racism in Colorblind Public Health Policies.
- Authors
Carrera, Jennifer S.; Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Abstract
A majority of Lowndes County, Alabama, residents live without properly functioning, legal, basic sanitation infrastructure. We describe the contemporary racialization of sanitation inequality in the county. We trace structural dimensions of race in land tenure through the heir property system, housing availability, and public health enforcement. Our analysis shows how cumulative effects of colorblind policies overlain on explicitly racist foundations operate to establish public health sanitation law as a persistent mechanism of producing racial stratification.
- Subjects
LOWNDES County (Ala.); RACIALIZATION; SANITATION; PUBLIC health; SANITATION laws; PUBLIC health laws
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 2018, Vol 77, Issue 3/4, p941
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ajes.12242