All Viruses are Created Equal: Corona-Epidemie und soziale Ungleichheit in den 
USA

Beckert, Jens

doi:10.13109/gege.2020.46.3.468

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All Viruses are Created Equal: Corona-Epidemie und soziale Ungleichheit in den USA

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Beckert, Jens
Soziologie des Marktes, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Beckert, J. (2020). All Viruses are Created Equal: Corona-Epidemie und soziale Ungleichheit in den USA. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 46(3), 468-480. doi:10.13109/gege.2020.46.3.468.

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In the spring of 2020, New York City was at the center of the coronavirus pandemic in theUnited States. The essay focuses on the unequal distribution of the outcomes of the public health crisis. The prospect of being infected with the virus, losing income, leaving the city for less affected areas, working from home or continuing schooling for one’s children has been vastly different for New Yorkers depending on their socioeconomic position, race and migration background. The social and racial stratification of the impacts of the pandemic on the individual bring to the fore the vast inequalities in American society and its political and cultural polarization.