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Black Butterfly

Lawrence T. Brown · 2021

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About the book

"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"--

Book details

Year
2021
Language
English
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Editions
4
Pages
408
ISBN
9781421439877

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