Table of Contents
Foreword Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot ix
Preface: One Street, Two Worlds xiii
Part I American Roulette
Chapter 1 American Roulette 3
Chapter 2 Structural Violence and the Death Gap 14
Chapter 3 Location, Location, Location 26
Chapter 4 Perception Is Reality 42
Chapter 5 The Three Bs: Beliefs, Behavior, Biology 55
Part 2 Trapped by Inequity
Chapter 6 Fire and Rain: Life and Death in Natural Disasters 75
Chapter 7 Mass Incarceration, Premature Death, and Community Health 89
Chapter 8 Immigration Status and Health Inequality: The Case of Transplant 96
Part 3 Health Care Inequality
Chapter 9 The US Health Care System: Separate and Unequal 113
Chapter 10 The Poison Pill: Health Insurance in America 133
Part 4 The Cure
Chapter 11 Community Efficacy and the Death Gap 145
Chapter 12 Community Activism against Structural Violence 160
Chapter 13 Observe, Judge, Act 174
Afterword 192
Acknowledgments 201
Notes 205
Index 233