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Under the skin : the hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation
- Title
- Under the skin : the hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation / Linda Villarosa.
- Author
- Villarosa, Linda
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- 269 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation, by a groundbreaking journalist at the New York Times Magazine"--
- 2018: Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. A Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth grade education. Her article made racial disparities in health care impossible to ignore. Here she shows how today's medical texts and instruments still carry fallacious slavery-era assumptions that Black bodies are fundamentally different from white bodies. Study after study of medical settings show worse treatment and outcomes for Black patients. Black people live in dirtier, more polluted communities due to environmental racism and neglect from all levels of government. And, most powerfully, Villarosa describes the new understanding that coping with the daily scourge of racism ages Black people prematurely. - adapted from Amazon info
- Alternative Title
- Hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation
- Subject
- African Americans > Health and hygiene
- Discrimination in medical care > United States
- Racism in medicine > United States
- Racism against Black people > United States
- African Americans > Social conditions
- Racism against Black people
- Discrimination in medical care
- Racism in medicine
- United States > Race relations
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-247) and index.
- Contents
- Everything I thought was wrong -- The dangerous myth that Black bodies are different -- Unequal treatment -- Something about being Black is bad for your body and your baby -- Where you live matters -- Strong, loud, and angry : the invisibility of Black emotional pain -- Discrimination and ill-treatment can harm every body -- Putting the care back in health care : solutions.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-1432
- ISBN
- 9780385544887
- 038554488X
- LCCN
- 2021043388
- OCLC
- 1269409888
- Author
- Villarosa, Linda, author.
- Title
- Under the skin : the hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation / Linda Villarosa.
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-247) and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.AUTH: CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-1432