Washing your hands is difficult w/out piped water. In our latest research, published in PNAS, we map the social geography of #plumbingpoverty in 50 U.S. cities. Hint: it has everything to do with racialized wealth gaps. Buckle up for a thread.

pnas.org/content/early/… "We find that, in the United States, one of the world’s wealthiest nations, an estimated 1,121,100 people (±25,500 margin of error) lacked a household piped water connection between 2013 and 2017—a population roughly the size of San José, California."

Racism is not just a set of discriminatory actions; racism (and racial capitalism) is hardwired into very #infrastructures of our daily lives, shaping who breezes through life with clean, potable water and who lives without ‘universal’ public services. A thread. In the Annals of @theAAG, @shiloh_deitz and I explore domestic water provision in the USA and expose its racialized, classed, and political nature. Yep, we do the entire country. We run the @ipums numbers. We make the maps. We bring the facts. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…