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“Trevor voiced a literal willingness to die for his place in this hierarchy, rather than participate in a system that might put him on the same plane as immigrants or racial minorities. 4”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“As but one example, the title of this book comes from a 1968 article that appeared in the prestigious Archives of General Psychiatry, in which psychiatrists Walter Bromberg and Frank Simon described schizophrenia as a “protest psychosis” whereby black men developed “hostile and aggressive feelings” and “delusional anti-whiteness” after listening to the words of Malcolm X, joining the Black Muslims, or aligning with groups that preached militant resistance to white society. According to the authors, the men required psychiatric treatment because their symptoms threatened not only their own sanity, but the social order of white America. Bromberg and Simon argued that black men who “espoused African or Islamic” ideologies, adopted “Islamic names” that were changed in such a way so as to deny “the previous Anglicization of their names” in fact demonstrated a “delusional anti-whiteness” that manifest as “paranoid projections of the Negroes to the Caucasian group.”10”
― The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
― The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“white Americans are then, literally, dying of whiteness. This is because white America’s investment in maintaining an imagined place atop a racial hierarchy—that is, an investment in a sense of whiteness—ironically harms the aggregate well-being of US whites as a demographic group, thereby making whiteness itself a negative health indicator.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“The white body that refuses treatment rather than supporting a system that might benefit everyone then becomes a metaphor for, and parable of, the threatened decline of the larger nation.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“How am I going to bring up the need to raise taxes to pay for better schooling,” one teacher asked, “when parents come to parent-teacher conferences wearing ‘Make America Great Again’ hats?”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“As Booker T. Washington once put it, “You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“Even on death’s doorstep, Trevor wasn’t angry. In fact, he staunchly supported the stance promoted by his elected officials. “Ain’t no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,” he told me. “I would rather die.” When I asked him why he felt this way even as he faced severe illness, he explained, “We don’t need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“Anti-blackness, in a biological sense, then produces its own anti-whiteness. An illness of the mind, weaponized onto the body of the nation.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“Yeah,” added a man who owned a lawn-care service. “A lot of the people that I know that are in poverty are not healthy… the vast majority of them are very overweight, and the children are overweight.” “And how do you know they’re not healthy?” I asked. “Well,” the man continued, “just by their physical appearance, generally speaking, although you can look at their facial expressions, their faces and look at the coloring of their skin, that type of thing.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“Native young adults skew toward suffocation/hanging at startling rates; and Asians/Pacific Islanders have shown relatively high rates of suicide attempt–related hospitalization.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“As Adam Winkler aptly describes it in his terrific book Gun Fight, “few people realize it, but the Ku Klux Klan began as a gun control organization” that aimed to confiscate any guns that free blacks may have obtained during and after the Civil War and thereby “achieve complete black disarmament.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“But black men consistently differed from white men in how they conceived of government intervention and group identity. Whereas white men jumped unthinkingly to assumptions about “them,” black men frequently answered questions about health and health systems through the language of “us.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings associated with whiteness, even in the face of clear threats to mortality or to common sense.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“White backlash politics gave certain white populations the sensation of winning, particularly by upending the gains of minorities and liberals; yet the victories came at a steep cost. When white backlash policies became laws, as in cutting away health care programs and infrastructure spending, blocking expansion of health care delivery systems, defunding opiate-addiction centers, spewing toxins into the air, or enabling guns in public spaces, the result was—and I say this with the support of statistics detailed in the chapters that follow—increasing rates of death.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“It does not have to be this way. We know from American history that our communal, electoral power allows us to build vibrant social networks, safer communities, and better education systems—when we decide to do so. If impoverished structures lead to negative outcomes, then a renewed focus on restoring equitable structures and infrastructures will improve individual and communal health.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“racism matters most to health when its underlying resentments and anxieties shape larger politics and policies and then affect public health.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“At the same time, through the early 1990s, Missouri’s handgun laws were among the strictest in the nation, including a requirement that handgun buyers undergo background checks in person at sheriffs’ offices before obtaining permits.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“politics fueled by racial resentment eroded faith in hallmark American democratic institutions more broadly.13”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“Such trends lifted the overall well-being of many Kentuckians and particularly helped people who suffered from what are oddly called preexisting conditions like hepatitis C—oddly, in my opinion, because “preexisting” assumes that a person’s existence begins at the consummation of health insurance coverage.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“In summary, people who reflexively shouted “Gun research doesn’t add up!” were often the same people who supported a ban on effective gun research. It was as if they reprimanded plants for not flowering during a drought while at the same time blocking the trucks that delivered water.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“Rather than landing a man on the moon, curing polio, inventing the internet, or promoting structures of world peace, a dominant strain of the electorate voted in politicians whose platforms of American greatness were built on embodied forms of demise.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“Yet risk feels particularly complicated in the context of the stories of white firearm. Lessons seem hard to cull when the support groups are comprised only of grieving loved ones because the primary victims do not live long enough to tell you what was going through their minds. Knowledge about best practices is fleeting because Congress effectively blocks federally funded research on gun-related risk, leading to a knowledge vacuum unlike anything ever seen for every other leading cause of injury and death. Ultimately, risk is embodied not in the imagined intruder but in the person who already lives in the house. Risk then becomes at once prevalent and invisible. Risk is an ellipsis, an evanescent void.”
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“racism remained an issue, not because of their attitudes but because they lived in states whose elected officials passed overly permissive gun policies, rejected health care reform, undercut social safety net programs, and a host of other actions. In these and other instances, racism and racial resentment functioned at structural levels and in ways that had far broader effects than the kinds of racism that functions in people’s minds.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“In 1996, Congress passed a ban on federally funded gun research. Legislators—lobbied heavily by the National Rifle Association—added a rider to the federal budget. That rider is known as the Dickey Amendment, and it stripped the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of funding for gun violence prevention research and stipulated that “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“Did it right then. And why? It’s the same thing, when someone shoots himself in the head; all you can do is cremate them. You’re searching for… memories.” “We’ve had four suicides in our family—no, wait, five if you count my cousin,” adds Kelly, a woman in her late twenties who came late to the meeting after getting off work in a local nail salon. “All done by gun.” “I’ve only just now learned to relax at the holidays,” a man named James says. “My uncle shot himself on Christmas Eve.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“With help comes hope,” Dawn, a trained social worker, explains while expanding on one of the pamphlets on the table. “It’s important to recognize warning signs and reach out to loved ones in despair when we notice that they’re feeling hopeless or withdrawing from friends and family, or showing mood swings. Drinking alcohol makes it worse. Antidepressant medications can”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“educational spending is a strong predictor of student achievement”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“I think you’re going to get a disproportionate impact on people who supported Donald Trump but maybe don’t realize that his policies may end up hurting them instead of helping them,” Moore claimed. Salon echoed Moore’s assessment: “Donald Trump is about to victimize his own voters.” Meanwhile, a lead editorial in the New York Times announced that “Trumpcare Is Already Hurting Trump Country.”1 Trump didn’t bother denying any of it. During an interview on Fox News in March 2017, Tucker Carlson told the president that “counties that voted for you, middle-class and working-class counties, would do far less well” under the proposed repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). “Yeah. Oh, I know that. It’s very preliminary,” Trump replied.2”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“I asked him what guns meant to him, and he immediately responded, “Freedom. Liberty. Patriotism. That’s why we just voted Trump. No way we were going to let ‘Crooked Hillary’ take those things away from us.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
