Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society Geronimus Arline T.
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society Geronimus Arline T. Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Marginalized…
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Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society Geronimus Arline T.
Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Marginalized Americans are disproportionately more likely to suffer from chronic diseases and to die at much younger ages than their middle- and upper-class white counterparts. Geronimus offers an urgent and necessary book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people.America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced for decades: systemic injustice takes a physical, too often deadly, toll on Black, brown, working class and poor communities, and any group who experiences systemic cultural oppression or economic exploitation.
White kids in high-poverty Appalachian regions have a Black mothers die during childbirth at a rate three times higher than white mothers.