PARTICULATES//Tulips: (Or, Estimating Respiratory Effects of Ambient Air Pollution and COVID-19 Using a Policing-Climate Adjusted Hazard Function)

Through poetry, I offer a creative, critical analysis of the intersections of COVID-19, structural racism, and racialized police violence—situating present COVID-19 discourse within a broader historical arc of respiratory distress within communities of color, all while centering Earth Day and climat...

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Published in:Health promotion practice 2021-05, Vol.22 (1_suppl), p.17S-19S
Main Author: Petteway, Ryan J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air pollution
Air Pollution - adverse effects
Climate change
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Health problems
Humans
Outdoor air quality
Poetry
Policing
Psychological distress
Public health
Racism
SARS-CoV-2
Systemic racism
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Summary:Through poetry, I offer a creative, critical analysis of the intersections of COVID-19, structural racism, and racialized police violence—situating present COVID-19 discourse within a broader historical arc of respiratory distress within communities of color, all while centering Earth Day and climate change as both metaphor and corollary. In doing so, I enact poetry as praxis, reflecting critically on the racialized contexts and consequences of overlapping threats to our health, while simultaneously crafting counternarrative to public health’s ahistoric, apolitical, and racist proclivities in times of public health crises
ISSN:1524-8399
1552-6372
DOI:10.1177/1524839921996263