Dying of Whiteness


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. 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.Alycia Santilli Donia Attia

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State policies shaped by white supremacy increase mortality rates in much the same way as other manmade health risks, such as pollution.

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