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Jonathan Metzl:  “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland”

An evening with author Jonathan Metzl: 
“Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland”

“Traveling through the American heartland, a physician deconstructs how right-wing policies have fatal consequences, even for the voters they purport to help. A blistering portrait of a subculture so in thrall to racist ideology that they willingly invite raising gun suicides, poor healthcare, and falling life expectancies.”
– Esquire

“Copious data have long shown us the deadly effects of racist health policies on African Americans. But in Dying of Whiteness, Jonathan M. Metzl powerfully shows us this coin’s reverse: the deadly effects on white populations of contemporary policies promulgated by vengeful politicians to ‘restore’ an imaginary white superiority, and embraced by resentful, marginalized whites…”
– Harriet Washington, author of Medical Apartheid

Jonathan M. Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and director of its Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.











When: Wed., Jul. 31, 2019 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Revolution Books
437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave. @132nd St
212-691-3345
Price: $5-$10 suggested donation
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An evening with author Jonathan Metzl: 
“Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland”

“Traveling through the American heartland, a physician deconstructs how right-wing policies have fatal consequences, even for the voters they purport to help. A blistering portrait of a subculture so in thrall to racist ideology that they willingly invite raising gun suicides, poor healthcare, and falling life expectancies.”
– Esquire

“Copious data have long shown us the deadly effects of racist health policies on African Americans. But in Dying of Whiteness, Jonathan M. Metzl powerfully shows us this coin’s reverse: the deadly effects on white populations of contemporary policies promulgated by vengeful politicians to ‘restore’ an imaginary white superiority, and embraced by resentful, marginalized whites…”
– Harriet Washington, author of Medical Apartheid

Jonathan M. Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and director of its Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.

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