A physician\'s remarkable account of how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences ( Minneapolis Star Tribune ) -- even for the white voters they promise to help.
Now updated with a new afterword, Dying of Whiteness demonstrates how much white America would benefit by emphasizing cooperation rather than chasing false promises of supremacy.. e shows these policies\' costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, falling life expectancies, and rising dropout rates.
Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, Metzl 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.
Metzl shows in Dying of Whiteness shows, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death.
But as physician Jonathan M.
In election after election, conservative white Americans have embraced politicians who pledge to make their lives great again.
A physician\'s remarkable account of how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences ( Minneapolis Star Tribune ) -- even for the white voters they promise to help
