Black Butterfly
Subtitle: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781421439877
Description: "This book discusses the long history of the deleterious effects of racial segregation on health in the United States. Author Brown puts Baltimore under a microscope because Baltimore was the first city in America to enact segregationist legislation and because it remains hypersegregated to this day. "Black butterfly" describes the shape of a demographic map that plots Baltimore's population by race: a white central axis with black wings east and west"--