Caribbean Corner

"Building the Worlds That Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History" by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz c.2024. Columbia University Press                            $28.00                                     408 pages   Get lots of rest. That's always good advice when you're ailing. Don't overdo it. Don't try to be Superman or Supermom; rest and follow your doctor's orders. And if, as in the new book, "Building the Worlds That Kill Us" by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, your skin color and social strata are a certain way, you'll feel better soon. Nearly five years ago, while interviewing residents along the Mississippi River in Louisiana for a book they were writing, authors Rosner and Markowitz learned that they'd caused a little brouhaha. Large corporations in the area, ones that the residents of "a small, largely African American community" had battled over air and soil...