{"id":45459,"date":"2025-12-06T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=45459"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:11:09","slug":"book-dying-of-whiteness-how-the-politics-of-racial-resentment-is-killing-americas-heartland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/book-dying-of-whiteness-how-the-politics-of-racial-resentment-is-killing-americas-heartland\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cDYING OF WHITENESS: HOW THE POLITICS OF RACIAL RESENTMENT IS KILLING AMERICA\u2019S HEARTLAND\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-25.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69983\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America\u2019s Heartland<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/3107824.Jonathan_M_Metzl\">Jonathan M. Metzl<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences\u2014even for the white voters they promise to help.<br><br>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&nbsp;<em>Dying of Whiteness<\/em>&nbsp;shows, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death.<br><br>Physician Jonathan M. Metzl\u2019s quest to understand the health implications of \u201cbacklash governance\u201d leads him across America\u2019s heartland.Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, he examines how racial resentment has fueled pro-gun 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\u2019 costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, rising dropout rates, and falling life expectancies. White Americans, Metzl argues, must reject the racial hierarchies that promise to aid them but in fact lead our nation to demise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69981\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/3107824.Jonathan_M_Metzl\">Jonathan M. Metzl<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor and Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University; a Psychiatrist; and the Research Director of The Safe Tennessee Project, a non-partisan, volunteer-based organization that is concerned with gun-related injuries and fatalities in America and in Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America\u2019s Heartland Jonathan M. Metzl A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences\u2014even for the white voters they promise to help. In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/book-dying-of-whiteness-how-the-politics-of-racial-resentment-is-killing-americas-heartland\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45460,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45459\/revisions\/45460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}