Tag Archives | George Lipsitz

  • The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth.

    BAR Book Forum: George Lipsitz’s Book, “The Danger Zone is Everywhere”

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on October 9, 2024 by Roberto Sirvent (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Oct 12, 2024)

    George Lipsitz: The Danger Zone is Everywhere focuses on how unjust access to housing and health skews opportunities and life chances along racial lines. It argues that housing insecurity and poor health are key components of an unjust, destructive and deadly racial order. The book shows how the tort model of injury in law and the biomedical model of health work to occlude structural racism by treating socially produced injuries as personal problems.