02933cam a2200433 4500 382582068 TxAuBib 20190516120000.0 180820s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018040108 9781541644984 1541644980 40028967009 (OCoLC)1043562695 TxAuBib Metzl, Jonathan, 1964- Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland / Jonathan M. Metzl. How the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland. First edition. New York : Basic Books, [2019] ©2019. viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-330) and index. With the rise of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, many middle- and lower-income white Americans threw their support behind conservative politicians who pledged to make life great again for people like them. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the right-wing policies that resulted from this white backlash put these voters' very health at risk--and, in the end, threaten everyone's well-being. Physician and sociologist Jonathan M. Metzl travels across America's heartland seeking to better understand the politics of racial resentment and its impact on public health. Interviewing a range of Americans, he uncovers how racial anxieties led to the repeal of gun control laws in Missouri, stymied the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and fueled massive cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. Although such measures promised to restore greatness to white America, Metzl's systematic analysis of health data dramatically reveals they did just the opposite: these policies made life sicker, harder, and shorter in the very populations they purported to aid. Thus, white life expectancies fell, gun suicides soared, and school dropout rates rose. Powerful, searing, and sobering, Dying of Whiteness ultimately demonstrates just how much white America would benefit by emphasizing cooperation, rather than chasing false promises of supremacy--Publisher's description. 20190516. Medical policy United States. Public health United States. Racism Political aspects United States. Whites Health and hygiene United States. Whites United States Social conditions 21st century. Race relations Political aspects. Healthcare Disparities. Socioeconomic Factors. Racism. United States Race relations Political aspects. Tennessee. Missouri. Kansas.