Wright / Hubbard / Darity Jr. The Pandemic Divide

How COVID Increased Inequality in America
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2313-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten

The contributors to The Pandemic Divide analyze and explain the myriad racial disparities that came to the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic while highlighting what steps could have been taken to mitigate its impact.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Gwendolyn L.

Hubbard, Lucas

Darity Jr., William A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Terminology ix
Foreword / Mary T. Bassett xi
Introduction. Six Feet and Miles Apart: Structural Racism in the United States and Racially Disparate Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Lucas Hubbard, Gwendolyn L. Wright, and William A. Darity Jr. 1
Section I: COVID-19 in Context
1. How Systemic Racism and Preexisting Conditions Contributed to COVID-19 Disparities for Black Americans / Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, Melissa J. Scott, and Paul A. Robbins 29
2. Labor History and Pandemic Response: The Overlapping Experiences of Work, Housing, and Neighborhood Conditions / Joe William Trotter Jr. 46
Section II: COVID-19 and Institutions
3. “God Is in Control”: Race, Religion, Family, and Community during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Sandra L. Barnes 69
4. COVID-19, Race, and Mass Incarceration / Arvind Krishnamurthy 87
Section III: COVID-19 and Financial Disparities
5. Housing, Student Debt, and Labor Market Inequality: COVID-19, Black Families/Households, and Financial Insecurity / Fenaba R. Addo and Adam Hollowell 111
6. Race, Entrepreneurship, and COVID-19: Black Small-Business Survival in Prepandemic and Postpandemic America / Henry Clay McKoy Jr. 129
7. COVID-19 Effects on Black Business-Owner Households / Chris Wheat, Fiona Greig,and Damon Jones 186
8. Closing Racial Economic Gaps during and after COVID-19 / Jane Dokko and Jung Sakong 210
Section IV: COVID-19 and Educational Disparities
9. Latinx Immigrant Parents and Their Children in Times of COVID-19: Facing Inequities Together in the “Mexican Room” of the New Latino South / Marta Sánchez, Melania DiPietro, Leslie Babinski, Steve Amendum, and Steven Knotek 231
10. COVID-19, Higher Education, and Social Inequality / Adam Hollowell and N. Joyce Payne 256
11. The Rebirth of K-12 Public Education: Postpandemic Opportunities / Kristen R. Stephens, Kisha N. Daniels, and Erica R. Phillips 276
Postscript: COVID-19 and the Path Forward / Eugene T. Richardson 295
Contributors 301
Index 307

Über Autor(innen)

Gwendolyn L. Wright is Director of Strategic Initiatives and Collaborations at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.

Lucas Hubbard is Associate in Research at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.

William A. Darity Jr. is Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.