Thank you to Perseus Books & NetGalley for the Advanced Reader's Copy.

This edition is available May 12 2020.

A careful, painful read, Dr. Metzl's Dying of Whiteness tries to portray the many Trump supporting Americans, those who we see angrily yelling on stage. Divided into three sections, Missouri, Tennessee and Kansas, Dr Metzel presents the history, socioeconomic context and current debates about gun control, healthcare and public school funds. With a touch of love and dry humor, he painstakingly shows the disparity between the white folk being the beneficiaries of public policies and their staunch opposition to more public health funding. The first section on gun control is the most emotionally difficult to read as he tragically discusses the high rate of suicide by gun in white males. As medical students, we are often taught this factoid and it is quizzed on every board exam, but to see the impact of guns on tearing apart families and then to hear the families defending gun rights is another experience altogether. Overall, the book tries to humanize whiteness & shows its very fragile, though at times quite racist and hateful, core.