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Dying of Whiteness - How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (Hardcover)
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Dying of Whiteness - How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (Hardcover)
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Dying of Whiteness is What's the Matter with Kansas but with an
emphasis on public health. In the backlash conservatism of the
Trump era, physician Jonathan M. Metzl argues that lower- and
middle-class white Americans who vote for policies that promise to
protect their embattled "way of life," in fact damage their own
health and well-being. Through focus groups and interviews with
ordinary Americans and statistical analysis of population health
and life expectancy, Metzl shows how anti-government and pro-gun
policies win support due to white racial resentment, and how such
policies raise mortality risks for white Americans and for our
society as a whole. Metzl's quest to understand the health
implications of what he calls "backlash governance" focuses
centrally on three hot-button issues: the spread of pro-gun laws
supported by the NRA, efforts to oppose and repeal of the
Affordable Care Act (ACA), and sweeping cuts to taxes and public
spending. Raised in Missouri and Kansas and a long-time resident of
Tennessee, he focuses on these three states, each of them once
known for bipartisan cooperation but more recently dominated by
conservative ideologues. In Missouri, a state that dramatically
relaxed once-strict handgun laws, he speaks with families of gun
suicide victims and documents soaring rates of death and injury by
gun. In Tennessee, once a pioneer in healthcare provision, he
examines the ramifications of the state's intense resistance to the
ACA's Medicare expansion, embodied by one man who refused to sign
up for "Obamacare" even as he was dying of Hepatitis C. And in
Kansas, he shows how enormous income tax cuts led to extreme
austerity in the state's public schools, increasing drop-out rates
and reducing life expectancy among black and white alike. With
President Trump's election and other Republican victories in 2016,
these state-level controversies have become national
flashpoints-and, Metzl argues, the health risks that accompany a
politics warped by racial resentment have only grown. To move
forward, we must understand how systems of racial hierarchy hurt us
all, and that policies promising to shore up the position of whites
at the expense of minorities will only hasten our demise.
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