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English | 2022 | ISBN: 038554488X | 271 pages | True EPUB | 1.55 MB
From an award-winning writer at theNew York Times Magazineanda contributor to the1619 Projectcomesa landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.
In 2018, Linda Villarosa'sNew York Times Magazinearticle 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, inUnder the Skin,Linda Villarosa lays bare the forces in the American health-care system and in...
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