Health as Property

“Brilliant in his analysis and arguments, Nic John Ramos makes important contributions to scholarship and civic life by casting new light on the civil rights movement, the war on poverty, Black electoral politics, urban economic development, and the racial politics of constructing global cities.”—George Lipsitz, author of The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth

“Health as Property shows what a queer lens can do for urban history, African American history, gender studies, and ethnic studies.”—Laura Briggs, author of How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
  "Ramos creates a brilliant exposé of the tensions between providing health care and appeasing a white power structure building a multiracial global city in mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles. Tracing new scientific discourses on racial and sexual liberalism along with the struggle against poverty, Ramos's historical study is a startling narrative and an analytic tour de force."—Susan M. Reverby, author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

“I thought I knew Los Angeles until I read this brilliant book. A model of interdisciplinary scholarship, Health as Property places Black Angelenos’ quest for dignified health care at the center of a far-reaching account that touches every corner of the region. A must-read.”—Daniel Martinez HoSang, Professor of American Studies, Yale University