Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland / Jonathan M. Metzl.
"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. Int...
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| Other title: | How the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2020.
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| Edition: | First trade paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.