A peculiar indifference : the neglected toll of violence on black America /

A peculiar indifference : the neglected toll of violence on black America / Elliott Currie.

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"In the United States today, a young black man has a sixteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined. Even black women are more affected by violence than white men, despit...

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Main Author: Currie, Elliott (Author)
Other title:Neglected toll of violence on black America.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Violence against > History > 21st century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century.
African Americans > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Race discrimination > United States > History > 21st century.
Social justice > United States > History > 21st century.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Race discrimination.
Race relations.
Social justice.
Race discrimination > United States.
United States > Race relations > History > 21st century.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Dimensions
  • Impacts
  • Explanations, I: Pioneers
  • Explanations, II: Contemporaries
  • Remedies.

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