Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland / Jonathan M. Metzl.

By: Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, 2020; �2019Edition: 1st trade pbk. edDescription: viii, 349 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 9781541644977Subject(s): Medical policy -- United States | Public health -- United States | United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects | Racism -- Political aspects -- United States | Whites -- Health and hygiene -- United States | Whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century | Tennessee | Missouri | KansasDDC classification: 362.1/089 LOC classification: RA563.M56 | M48 2020Summary: "Examines how racial resentment has fueled pro-gun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and cuts to schools and social services in Kansas; shows the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death"--Amazon.
Item type: List(s) this item appears in: Black History - Selected Non-Fiction | Thesis-Driven Scholarly Non-Fiction | Racial Justice (AP)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-337) and index.

"Examines how racial resentment has fueled pro-gun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and cuts to schools and social services in Kansas; shows the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death"--Amazon.

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