Dying of Whiteness
Dying of Whiteness A physician's "remarkable" account of how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences (Minneapolis Star Tribune) -- even for the white voters they promise to help.In…
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Dying of Whiteness
A physician's "remarkable" account of how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences (Minneapolis Star Tribune) -- even for the white voters they promise to help.In election after election, conservative white Americans have embraced politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. Metzl shows in Dying of Whiteness shows, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death. But as physician Jonathan M.
e shows these policies' costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, falling life expectancies, and rising dropout rates.Now updated with a new afterword, 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.