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Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol
466 pages, Paperback
Published October 28, 2025
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January 27, 2026
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This book is a thoughtful, incisive, thoroughly researched book about co-occurring epidemics and syndemics in the District of Columbia. I’m not just talking about the SAVA (substance abuse, violence, and AIDS), which Dr. Mojola discusses in great detail, but also the historical, structural syndemics of racism, discrimination, stigma, geographic containment, and poverty, among others. Dr. Mojola’s work combines the methods of historical, sociological, and epidemiological investigation to provide so much integral context to understanding the origins and sequelae of health disparities in the African American community in the nation’s capital that one cannot possibly look at morbidity and mortality reports the same way.
This is critical reading for persons interested in social and health justice, public health, and African American history/studies.
This book is a thoughtful, incisive, thoroughly researched book about co-occurring epidemics and syndemics in the District of Columbia. I’m not just talking about the SAVA (substance abuse, violence, and AIDS), which Dr. Mojola discusses in great detail, but also the historical, structural syndemics of racism, discrimination, stigma, geographic containment, and poverty, among others. Dr. Mojola’s work combines the methods of historical, sociological, and epidemiological investigation to provide so much integral context to understanding the origins and sequelae of health disparities in the African American community in the nation’s capital that one cannot possibly look at morbidity and mortality reports the same way.
This is critical reading for persons interested in social and health justice, public health, and African American history/studies.
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