Dying of Whiteness
How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
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Narrateur(s):
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Jamie Renell
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Auteur(s):
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Jonathan M. Metzl
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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.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- HRPuff&Stuff
- 2019-06-19
Perhaps these best book on the political paradox of white voters hurting themselves
The author makes an well thought out position regarding the adverse effects of maintaining white privilege leading to self-harm including gun death suicides, lack of health care access even with federal funds offered, and starvation of schools and infrastructure just to prevent sharing public resources with the nonexistent migrant hoards. And tax cuts for the very wealthy to prop up a nonexistent American Dream. Sadly those most affect by self-inflicted prideful suffering so “the others” may not be helped - are the ones who won’t read this book. For the rest of us, it at least helps to understand the intractable problem of red vs blue states in America.
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- Margaret Walton-Roberts
- 2019-09-23
Detailed research and strong argument
This carefully researched book examines three US states through a specific policy to demonstrate how underlying racially informed motivations to protect white privilege and rights is actually increasing white (male) mortality. Metzl examines gun policy in Missouri, health policy in Tennessee and tax policy in Kansas. In each case he examines how each policy is informed by racial bias. The consequence of reducing gun legislation (Missouri) , rejecting health care expansion (Tennessee) and slashing state expenditure through tax cuts (Kansas) has resulted in quantifiable increased white mortality in each state. Metzl mentions Booker T. Washington's quote: "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him”, and this book clearly demonstrates that fact. I fear, however, that the careful balanced scholarly argument developed in this book will limit its ability to change the current direction US politics is moving. This would be a deep shame, since the research is carefully presented to make the point that investment in health, education and social infrastructure and the development of appropriate gun laws can benefit and protect all Americans.
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