{"id":36780,"date":"2014-06-30T21:06:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T21:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36780"},"modified":"2014-06-30T21:06:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T21:06:02","slug":"infectious-fear-politics-disease-and-the-health-effects-of-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36780","title":{"rendered":"Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=1587\" target=\"_blank\">Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of North Carolina Press<\/a><br \/>\nMay 2009<br \/>\n328 pages<br \/>\n36 illus., 5 tables, notes, bibl., index<br \/>\n6.125 x 9.25<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5934-6<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/history.columbia.edu\/faculty\/Roberts.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr.<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History; Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences<br \/>\n<em>Columbia University, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=1587\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unccp3.codemantra.us\/PDFViewer\/9780807832592\/Universal%20PDF\/9780807832592\/Images\/19780807832592.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For most of the first half of the twentieth century, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuberculosis\" target=\"_blank\">tuberculosis<\/a> ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines how individuals and institutions\u2014black and white, public and private\u2014responded to the challenges of tuberculosis in a segregated society.<\/p>\n<p>Reactionary white politicians and health officials promoted &#8220;racial hygiene&#8221; and sought to control TB through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow<\/a> quarantines, Roberts explains. African Americans, in turn, protested the segregated, overcrowded housing that was the true root of the tuberculosis problem. Moderate white and black political leadership reconfigured definitions of health and citizenship, extending some rights while constraining others. Meanwhile, those who suffered with the disease\u2014as its victims or as family and neighbors\u2014made the daily adjustments required by the devastating effects of the &#8220;white plague.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Exploring the politics of race, reform, and public health, <em>Infectious Fear<\/em> uses the tuberculosis crisis to illuminate the limits of racialized medicine and the roots of modern health disparities. Ultimately, it reveals a disturbing picture of the United States&#8217; health history while offering a vision of a more democratic future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation University of North Carolina Press May 2009 328 pages 36 illus., 5 tables, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5934-6 Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr., Associate Professor of History; Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York For most of the first half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2039,459,17,394,20],"tags":[17558,17557,17556,17555,17554,667],"class_list":["post-36780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-samuel-k-roberts","tag-samuel-k-roberts-jr","tag-samuel-kelton-roberts","tag-samuel-kelton-roberts-jr","tag-tuberculosis","tag-university-of-north-carolina-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}