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Sanitation Inequity and the Cumulative Effects of Racism in Colorblind Public Health Policies
Author(s) -
Carrera Jennifer S.,
Flowers Catherine Coleman
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/ajes.12242
Subject(s) - sanitation , racialization , racism , enforcement , public health , inequality , health equity , socioeconomics , political science , economic growth , environmental health , sociology , race (biology) , economics , law , health care , medicine , gender studies , mathematical analysis , nursing , mathematics , pathology
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.