Nic John Ramos

Health as Property shows how responses to racism can be predatory, harmful, and dangerous to poor people of colour. Nic Ramos examines a Black-led academic medical centre known as King-Drew that was built in response to the 1965 Watts Uprising. Forged by the political willingness of white voters to experiment with anti-poverty programmes in poor neighbourhoods of colour, the health...

Health as Property shows how responses to racism can be predatory, harmful, and dangerous to poor people of colour. Nic Ramos examines a Black-led academic medical centre known as King-Drew that was built in response to the 1965 Watts Uprising. Forged by the political willingness of white voters to experiment with anti-poverty programmes in poor neighbourhoods of colour, the health...