BookJonathan M. Metzl.
Summary: A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences-even for the white voters they promise to help Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe 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.
Contents:
Introduction: dying of whiteness
Part I: 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
Notes
Index.
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