Liquor stores have been repeatedly shown to be disproportionately prevalent in Black neighborhoods and therefore constitute a disproportionate health risk. This paper examines the ways in which liquor stores jeopardize Black lives through social and material conditions that are broader than health risk. Embodying and perpetuating dysfunctional markets, liquor stores relegate Black consumers to an overabundance of inexpensive and potent alcoholic beverages sold from heavily securitized storefronts and provoke conflicted and oppositional relationships. Liquor stores exist in a state of antibiosis with Black communities, an antagonistic relationship in which liquor stores gain but communities are adversely affected.

酒类商店一再被证明在黑人社区盛行，因此构成了不成比例的健康风险。本文研究了酒类商店通过比健康风险更广泛的社会和物质条件危害黑人生活的方式。酒类商店体现并延续了功能失调的市场，将黑人消费者置于从高度证券化的店面出售的大量廉价和烈性酒精饮料中，并引发冲突和对立关系。酒类商店与黑人社区处于一种抗菌状态，这是一种对立关系，其中酒类商店获利但社区受到不利影响。