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Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
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Author:
Linda Villarosa
Publisher:
Doubleday Books
Date:
June 14, 2022
In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Now, in Under the Skin, Linda Villarosa lays bare the forces in the American health-care system and in American society that cause Black people to "live sicker and die quicker" compared to their white counterparts.
What The Reviewers Say
Remarkable.
Brilliant, illuminating.
... wonderfully written. It’s not an inaccessible academic work or a polemic. Rather, its points are made amid moving narratives of real people’s experiences. The book also serves as a stake in the ground for Villarosa as she powerfully discloses what years of reporting have led her to understand: 'The something that is making Black Americans sicker is not race per se, or the lack of money, education, information, and access to health services that can be tied to being Black in America. It is also not genes or something inherently wrong or inferior about the Black body. The something is racism.'.
... gripping, incisive.
