University of Kansas: Study Shows Long-Standing Links Among Disease, Race, Class, Infrastructure
April 25, 2024
April 25, 2024
LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news:
Links -- both real and imagined -- between race and disease are far older than the COVID-19 pandemic. A University of Kansas researcher says her new study of a 19th century Cuban aqueduct project during a cholera outbreak proves this, first in the way poor people of color were looked down upon as vectors of disease spread and then in how they were victimized by "infrastructural violence.& . . .
Links -- both real and imagined -- between race and disease are far older than the COVID-19 pandemic. A University of Kansas researcher says her new study of a 19th century Cuban aqueduct project during a cholera outbreak proves this, first in the way poor people of color were looked down upon as vectors of disease spread and then in how they were victimized by "infrastructural violence.& . . .