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Drawing on interviews with federal, state and local policymakers and experts, as well as residents of three racially and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Chicago, this project analyzes the “racial equity” framework adopted by the state of Illinois and city of Chicago to mitigate racial disparities in COVID-19 outcomes and assesses its success, from the perspective of those most marginalized by race, class and legal status. I argue that COVID-19 represents and reifies the convergence of three emergencies. First, I argue that the federal and local governments governed through emergency, enacting temporally-bounded governmental strategies that presumed scarcity, triaged care, and naturalized structural inequality by delinking the effects of racism from its causes. This temporary emergency response was spectacular and anticipatory – designed to safeguard the status quo until “normalcy” could be restored. But such an approach invisibilized and exacerbated two longer-term endemic emergencies already taking place: 2) the slow emergencies racially marginalized populations have faced for decades due to neoliberal restructuring and the fragmentation of care infrastructure, and 3) the sacrifice of lower-income frontline workers to premature death to safeguard the economy & protect the middle-class. Each of these three emergencies operate along distinct temporalities, invoke divergent politics of visibility, and are governed with unique strategies of exclusion. JUMP TO PRESS COVERAGE OF THE COVID PROJECT POLICY REPORT Reviews Barnard, Alexander. 2025. “Emergency: COVID-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life.” Social Forces soaf094, 7/9/25. 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