Please join us on Wednesday February 4th from 4:00 – 6:00 PM at Kaprielian Hall (Rm 445) for a book talk celebrating Dr. Nic Jon Ramos’ newest monograph Health as Property: Racial Capitalism and Sexual Liberalism in Los Angeles. Some food and refreshments will be provided.
Health as Property shows how responses to racism can be predatory, harmful, and dangerous to poor people of color. Forged by the political willingness of white voters to experiment with anti-poverty programs in poor neighborhoods of color, the health system’s multiple missions represented the freedom dreams of civil rights, Black Power, welfare rights, and consumer rights activists in the 1960s and 1970s. Health as Property demonstrates how healthcare policy in America is both labor and real estate policy, and as such preserves health as the property of a select few.
Nic John Ramos, PhD, is an academic specializing in the history of medicine, race, and sexuality, who earned his PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California (USC). He is currently an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Health as Property.
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