McQueeney, Kevin, author.

A city without care : 300 years of racism, health disparities, and healthcare activism in New Orleans / Kevin McQueeney.

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]

xii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

"New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It's also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity for 300 years of the city's history, beginning at its founding in 1718. McQueeney argues that this racist system emerged as a key component of the slave-based economy in the city, which quickly became institutionalized with the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. He also shows that, despite legislation and court victories in the Civil Rights era, an apartheid health care system still exists today"-- Provided by publisher.

Studies in social medicine

Studies in social medicine.

Discrimination in medical care -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.

African Americans -- Medical care -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

African Americans -- Segregation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations.

Three hundred years of racism, health disparities, and healthcare activism in New Orleans.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It's also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity for 300 years of the city's history, beginning at its founding in 1718. McQueeney argues that this racist system emerged as a key component of the slave-based economy in the city, which quickly became institutionalized with the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. He also shows that, despite legislation and court victories in the Civil Rights era, an apartheid health care system still exists today"-- Provided by publisher.

Health and health care in the era of slavery, 1718-1843 -- The growth of the slave-based health care economy, 1800-1861 -- The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow health care, 1862-1900 -- A white medical district, 1900-1940 -- Jim Crow black health care, 1927-1950 -- Health care in the era of civil rights and resistance, 1960-1968 -- Two-tiered health care, 1965-1974 -- Black health care in the age of abandonment, 1975-2005 -- Black health and health care after Katrina.

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