TY  - BOOK
AU  - Metzl,Jonathan
TI  - Dying of whiteness: how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland 
SN  - 1541644980
AV  - RA563 .M56 M489 2019
U1  - 362.1089 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Equality
KW  - Health services accessibility
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - United States
KW  - Public health
KW  - Racism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social policy
KW  - White people
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1: Missouri--Part 2: Tennessee--Part 3: Kansas
N2  - 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
ER  -