Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland /
Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-
Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland / How the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland. Jonathan M. Metzl. - First edition. - New York : Basic Books, [2019], ©2019. - viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: Missouri--Part 2: Tennessee--Part 3: Kansas.
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences--even for the white voters they promise to help. In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death. Physician Jonathan M. Metzl's quest to understand the health implications of "backlash governance" leads him across America's heartland. Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, he examines how racial resentment has fueled progun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. And he shows these policies' costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, falling life expectancies, and rising dropout rates. White Americans, Metzl argues, must reject the racial hierarchies that promise to aid them but in fact lead our nation to demise. -- Publisher.
1541644980 9781541644977 9781541644984
2018040108
Equality.
Health services accessibility.
Medical policy--United States.
Public health--United States.
Racism.
Racism--Political aspects--United States.
Social policy.
White people--Social conditions--United States--21st century.
RA563 .M56 / M489 2019
362.1089
Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland / How the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland. Jonathan M. Metzl. - First edition. - New York : Basic Books, [2019], ©2019. - viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: Missouri--Part 2: Tennessee--Part 3: Kansas.
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences--even for the white voters they promise to help. In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death. Physician Jonathan M. Metzl's quest to understand the health implications of "backlash governance" leads him across America's heartland. Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, he examines how racial resentment has fueled progun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. And he shows these policies' costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, falling life expectancies, and rising dropout rates. White Americans, Metzl argues, must reject the racial hierarchies that promise to aid them but in fact lead our nation to demise. -- Publisher.
1541644980 9781541644977 9781541644984
2018040108
Equality.
Health services accessibility.
Medical policy--United States.
Public health--United States.
Racism.
Racism--Political aspects--United States.
Social policy.
White people--Social conditions--United States--21st century.
RA563 .M56 / M489 2019
362.1089