Fordham University Masthead Logo DigitalResearch@Fordham American Studies Senior Theses American Studies 2012 The rC oss-Bronx Double Cross: How the Cross- Bronx Expressway has Affected Pediatric Asthma in the Bronx Catherine McNamara Follow this and additional works at: https://fordham.bepress.com/amer_stud_theses Part of the American Studies Commons Recommended Citation McNamara, Catherine, "The rC oss-Bronx Double Cross: How the Cross-Bronx Expressway has Affected Pediatric Asthma in the Bronx" (2012). American Studies Senior Theses. 24. https://fordham.bepress.com/amer_stud_theses/24 This is brought to you for free and open access by the American Studies at DigitalResearch@Fordham. It has been accepted for inclusion in American Studies Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of DigitalResearch@Fordham. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Cross-Bronx Double Cross: How the Cross-Bronx Expressway has Affected Pediatric Asthma in the Bronx By Catherine McNamara Fordham University AMST 3500. American Studies Senior Seminar Profs. Julie Kim and Oneka LaBennett Senior Thesis December 15, 2011 1 Abstract This paper will address the effect that the construction of the Cross-Bronx Expressway, in conjunction with specific government policies and practices, has had and continues to have on the inordinately high rates of pediatric asthma in the Bronx. Existing research on the subject tends to take a very segmented view. There has been much research done in the individual fields of the history of the Cross-Bronx Expressway and the Bronx’s subsequent demographic change; more recently, studies have taken note of the Bronx’s high asthma rates, the effect of various pollutants on children’s lung function, pollution rates in the Bronx, and the difference in asthma rates among different races/ethnicities.