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03102aam a2200277 i 4500 001 6A99B37A1BC211EE8D6367BB4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230706010030 008 230602t20232022xxu e b 001 0 eng 020 $a 0525566228 020 $a 9780525566229 035 $a (OCoLC)1381030535 040 $a ZXC $b eng $c ZXC $d ZXC $d SILO 100 1 $a Villarosa, Linda, $e author. $4 aut 245 10 $a Under the skin : $b the hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation / $c Linda Villarosa. 246 30 $a Hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation 250 $a First anchor books edition 2023 264 1 $a New York : $b Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, $c 2023 300 $a 269 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-247) and index. 505 00 $t Putting the care back in health care : solutions. $t The dangerous myth that Black bodies are different -- $t Unequal treatment -- $t Something about being Black is bad for your body and your baby -- $t Where you live matters -- $t Strong, loud, and angry : the invisibility of Black emotional pain -- $t Discrimination and ill-treatment can harm every body -- $t Putting the care back in health care : solutions. 520 $a "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"--Provided by publisher. 520 $a 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. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between racial discrimination and the health of Black Americans, with little progress toward solutions. But Villarosa's article exposing that 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 made racial disparities in health care impossible to ignore. 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. 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. Anchored by unforgettable human stories and offering incontrovertible proof, Under the Skin is dramatic, tragic, and necessary reading--Publisher's description. 941 $a 1 952 $l ORAX826 $d 20230706010228.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6A99B37A1BC211EE8D6367BB4CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search