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In this chapter, Jonathan Metzl directly connects racism with the recent phenomenon of rising White death rates, declining health indices, and increasing poverty. Metzl explains how state policies shaped by White supremacy increase mortality rates in much the same way as other manmade health risks, such as pollution.
Reprint from Jonathan Metzl’s article with the same title published in the Boston Review at http://bostonreview.net/race/jonathan-m-metzl-dying-whiteness.
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Metzl, Jonathan M. 2019. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland. UK: Hachette.
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Metzl, J.M. (2021). Health: Dying of Whiteness. In: Austin, D.W., Bowser, B.P. (eds) Impacts of Racism on White Americans In the Age of Trump. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75232-3_4
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