Under The Skin, Above The Pavement: Urban Ecology, Embodied Masculinity, and the Science of Risk

What happens when inequality doesn't just shape opportunity, but gets under the skin?

This book examines how urban environments, structural racism, masculinity, and chronic stress converge to shape the health of Black and Brown men at the biological, emotional, and generational level. Moving beyond deficit-based narratives, it explores how forces such as environmental exposure, housing instability, food apartheid, policing, incarceration, and gender norms quietly rewire stress systems, immun...