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Health Rights are Civil Rights suggests an entirely new geography of Los Angeles based on both activism and geopolitics. Jenna M. Loyd makes pathbreaking connections between health, war-making, race, and the environment that offer us a new way of viewing midcentury Los Angeles. An essential text for all scholars of Los Angeles, health, race, and activism." —Laura Pulido, University of Southern California
Table of ContentsContents
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: War, American Exceptionalism, and the Place of Health Activism
Part I. Desegregating Health, Transforming Health Care1. Urban Geopolitics and the Fight for “Equal Justice in Health Care Now”2. Watts, the War on Poverty, and the Promise of Community Control
Part II. Urban Crisis3. Economic Conversion, Survival, and Race in “Dodge City”4. Mothering Underground: The Home in Women’s Welfare and Peace Organizing5. The War at Home: Forging Interracial Solidarities for Peace and Freedom
Part III. Cold War Body Politics6. Population Scares and Antiviolence Roots of Reproductive Justice7. Where Is Health? The Place of the Clinic in Social Change8. “Property Rights over Human Life”: Taxes and Austerity in the Divided City
Epilogue: The Right to Health Meets the Right to the CityNotesBibliographyIndex
