Binding: Hardcover
Description: ** Longlisted FOR THE 2023 PEN/ JOHN Kenneth Galbraith Award FOR Nonfiction**** Longlisted FOR THE 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals FOR Excellence**** Winner OF THE 2022 POZ Award FOR BEST IN Literature**" An irresistibly readable and humane exploration of the barbarities of class. readers are gifted that most precious of things in these muddled times: a clear lens through which to see the world." Naomi Klein New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine From preeminent Lgbtq scholar social critic and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society. Having spent a ground - breaking career studying the racialization policing and criminalization of HIV Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread kill and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are on biology alone. Told through the heart - rending stories of friends activists and teachers navigating the novel coronavirus HIV and other viruses Dr. Thrasher brings the reader with him as he delves into the viral underclass and lays bare its inner workings. In the tradition of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste and Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow The Viral Underclass helps us understand the world more deeply by showing the fraught relationship between privilege and survival.
Title: The Viral Underclass The Human Toll When Inequality And Disease Collide
Author(s): Metzl Steven W. Thrasher; Foreword By Jonathan M.
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250796639
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 8/2/2022
Category: Social Impact Of Environmental Issues