This volume examines how the Coronavirus pandemic disproportionately harmed vulnerable and marginalized people in the U.S., highlighting structural racism and inequalities affecting people of color and low-wage workers. It offers successful mitigation strategies and recommendations for a more just post-pandemic future.

Drawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume explores how the Coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately harmed vulnerable and marginalized people in the U.S. Chapters address harm to people of color that exacerbated structural racism and harm to low-wage workers that highlighted existing inequalities. In addition, the volume provides strategies that have been successful in mitigating these harms and recommendations for a post-pandemic more peaceful and just future.