ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the urban environment as a context for assessing Black men’s health and well-being through historical, institutional, and intersectional lenses. It describes how urban stressors have impacted their health status and well-being. The chapter explains how the very presence of the migrant Black men—given their racial, socioeconomic, and social statuses—historically has posed significant challenges to their functioning and well-being within the urban environment. It deals with an examination of the contemporary status of Black males and provides an examination of considerations and strategies of healthy urban environments for all residents and initiatives that promote collective health and well-being among urban Black men. The chapter explores the intersectional analysis of urban Black men’s social identities and statuses, their lived experiences, and their health outcomes. Health and vitality are broadly conceptualized as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely assessed by the absence of disease.
