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  • Dying of Whiteness

  • How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
  • By: Jonathan M. Metzl
  • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
  • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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Dying of Whiteness

By: Jonathan M. Metzl
Narrated by: Jamie Renell
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Summary

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences - even for the white voters they promise to help.

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe.

In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death.

Physician Jonathan M. Metzl's quest to understand the health implications of "backlash governance" leads him across America's heartland. Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, he 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. And he shows these policies' costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, falling life expectancies, and rising dropout rates. White Americans, Metzl argues, must reject the racial hierarchies that promise to aid them but in fact lead our nation to demise.
©2019 Jonathan M. Metzl (P)2019 Hachette Audio
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Empathetic Understanding

Before I listened to this book, as a citizen from the UK, I could not understand the mentality of Americans who were pro-gun and treated any healthcare reform as “dirty socialism”. This book helped me to understand what has created this mentality and why America is in the mess it is in.

Would recommend this books content but the narrator had me struggling at points. His voice was too flat and I had to rewind a few times because my mind wandered off.

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