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Death by Design
Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol
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Sanyu A. Mojola
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English
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2025
About this book
Washington, DC, has the nation's largest racial life expectancy gap, and it has experienced many of the nation's worst epidemics, including maternal and infant mortality, homicide, heroin overdoses, and HIV/AIDS. These epidemics have disproportionately affected African Americans. Why and how does racial health inequality exist and persist? Starting from the city's founding in the late 1700s and drawing on a range of sources—including archival material, life history interviews, and census, vital statistics, and disease surveillance data—this book illustrates how the physical, social, and policy design of the city contributes to the production and reproduction of disproportionate Black death.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Sanyu A. Mojola
Sanyu A. Mojola is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and Maurice P. During Professor of Demographic Studies at Princeton University. She directed Princeton's Office of Population Research from 2020 to 2024.
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Part One. Racial Containment and Health in Historical Context
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October 31, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9780520972629
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466
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Keywords for this book
racial injustice; structural violence; urban health; policy failure; demographic disparity; systemic neglect; medical segregation; environmental racism; social determinants; life expectancy gap; healthcare barriers; institutional harm; epidemiological patterns; mortality inequity; public crisis
