“…Like Meyers and Hunt, we believe Detroit's poor health outcomes and extreme income inequality are comparable to that of the "global South." 52 An important distinction to make, however, is that Detroit is located in the United States, which touts the largest economy in the world (a $16,800 billion gross domestic product in 2013). 53 Nevertheless, as Meyers and Hunt noted, "Detroiters may understand their predicaments as stemming from an American history of racism, riots, white flight, post-industrial ruin, and neoliberal-engineered bankruptcy, but also as very much a part of a global history about race, denigration, poverty, humiliation, and insult."…”