Main description:

This pioneering book demonstrates the disproportionate impact of state responses to COVID-19 on racially marginalized communities.
Written by women and queer people of colour academics and activists, the book analyses pandemic lockdowns, border controls, vaccine trials, income support and access to healthcare across eight countries in North America, Asia, Australasia and Europe, to reveal the inequities within, and between countries.
Putting intersectionality and economic justice at the heart of their frameworks, the authors call for collective action to end the pandemic and transform global inequities.
Contributing to debates around the effects of COVID-19 - as well as racial capitalism and neoliberal globalization at large - this research is invaluable in informing future policy.

Contents:

1. Introduction - Sunera Thobani
PART I: The Racial-Political Economy of COVID-19
2. Sacrificial Logics: The Racial Politics of COVID-19 - Sunera Thobani
3. Racism, Anti-Communism and COVID-19: The Making of a Transnational Discursive War Against China - Yuezhi Zhao with Xuezhi Du
4. Life or Livelihood? COVID-19 in the UK and the Existential Question of Our Times - Radha D'Souza
5. Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to Genomic Research Participation Among Minority Populations: A Piloted Community Survey in Flint, MI - Mieka Smart, Megan Mulheron, Yvonne Nong, Crystal Juarez, Emiko Blalock, Roland J. Thorpe Jr, and Amanda Woodward
PART II: The Violence of Under/De-Development
6. Gaza: The Right to Life or the Right to Health During COVID-19 - Ayman Qwaider
7. 'You Are No More Required': COVID-19 Unmasks the False Development Policies - Farida Akhter
8. Mapping the Multiple Vulnerabilities of Domestic Workers During COVID-19: Reflections from India - Sabiha Hussain
PART III: Lives Under Lockdown
9. Off-Shore: Lockdown Topographies - Suvendrini Perera
10. The Virus and the Violence: Reflections on 'Anti-Asian' Hate and Racist Maskaphobia - Mengzhu Fu
11. #NoGoingBack: Queer Leaps at the Intersection of Protest and COVID-19 - Jin Haritaworn
12. Conclusion - Sunera Thobani