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"Toxic Metropolis: Cities, Suburbs, and the Battle over Public Health in Modern America"

Work-In-Progress with Dr. Andrew Highsmith

In this talk, History professor Andrew Highsmith will be presenting material from his book Toxic Metropolis: Cities, Suburbs, and the Battle over Public Health in Modern America.

"Toxic Metropolis: Cities, Suburbs, and the Battle over Public Health in Modern America"

Toxic Metropolis is a book in progress that explores how deeply inequitable processes of urbanization and suburbanization interacted with the rise of mass consumption, economic globalization, and neoliberalism to shape both public health inequalities and the politics of wellness in the twentieth-century United States. At its core, it is a book about the battles over the political economy of health inequity that took shape in the modern American metropolis. As such, it seems to explain why, despite many decades of social justice organizing and generations of medical and technological advances, members of historically disenfranchised groups continue to be less healthy than their peers in the larger society.

This event is free and open to the public.

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