Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation - sale

A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'--an eye-opening game changer.--Oprah Daily  From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a 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's New York Times Magazine article 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, in Under the Skin, Linda Villarosa lays bare the forc