Dying of Whiteness How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Dying of Whiteness How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
- ISBN 13:
9781541644977
- ISBN 10:
1541644972
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 05/12/2020
- Publisher: Basic Books
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Summary
In election after election, conservative white Americans have embraced politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as physician Jonathan M. Metzl shows in Dying of Whiteness, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death. Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, Metzl 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. He shows these policies' costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, falling life expectancies, and rising dropout rates.
Now updated with a new afterword, Dying of Whiteness demonstrates how much white America would benefit by emphasizing cooperation rather than chasing false promises of supremacy.
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award