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Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland

Author / Creator: Metzl, Jonathan, 1964- author
Available as: Physical
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 p...

"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."--Page 4 of cover.

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Creator: Jonathan M. Metzl
Format: Books
Language: English
Publication: First trade paperback edition

New York : Basic Books, 2020

©2019
Physical Details: viii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBNs: 9781541644977, 1541644972, 9781541644960
OCLC: on1117623699

Introduction: Dying of whiteness -- Part 1: Missouri -- The Cape -- Risk -- Interview : I can't just make it go away -- The man card -- Interview : We gotta take up arms -- Preventative medicine -- Interview : The biggest heart -- What was the risk? -- Interview : The whys and what-ifs -- Trigger warnings -- Part 2: Tennessee -- Unaffordable -- Cost -- In the name of affordable care -- Focus -- Socialism -- Everybody -- De-progressive -- The numbers tell the story -- Part 3: Kansas -- Beneath the surface -- There's no place like home -- The Kansas experiment -- Interview : A downward cycle -- Austerity -- Interview : A bad rap -- The schools -- Interview : The race card -- Congestive heart failure -- Interview : No matter what he does -- Millions of millions -- Conclusion: The castle doctrine -- Afterword to the paperback edition