Conditioned for Death: Analysing Black Mortalities from Covid-19 and Police Killings in the United States as a Syndemic Interaction
Tommy J. Curry
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has been analysed as a distinct from, but concurrent with, more typical racist events, such as police killings in the United States. This article argues that one can conceptualise these two events as inter-related and synergistically enhanced. Anti-Black racism is a dynamic that utilises different social inequalities and violent events to manage the Black population within the United States. This article suggests that theorists would benefit from a syndemic analysis of disease and anti-Black violence in future theorisations of Black oppression.
Topics & Concepts
SyndemicOppressionRacismCriminologyCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)PandemicPopulationSociologyPolitical scienceGender studiesDemographyPublic healthMedicineDiseaseLawInfectious disease (medical specialty)PoliticsNursingPathologyEmployment and Welfare StudiesCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesRacial and Ethnic Identity Research