{"product_id":"under-the-skin","title":"Under the Skin","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom an award-winning writer at \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll that racism takes on individuals and the health of the nation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2018, Linda Villarosa's \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, in \u003ci\u003eUnder the Skin\u003c\/i\u003e, Linda Villarosa lays bare the forces in the American health-care system and in American society that cause Black people to 'live sicker and die quicker' compared to their white counterparts. Today's medical texts and instruments still carry fallacious slavery-era assumptions that Black bodies are fundamentally different from white bodies. Study after study of medical settings show worse treatment and outcomes for Black patients. Black people live in dirtier, more polluted communities due to environmental racism and neglect from all levels of government. And, most powerfully, Villarosa describes the new understanding that coping with the daily scourge of racism ages Black people prematurely.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnchored by unforgettable human stories and offering incontrovertible proof, \u003ci\u003eUnder the Skin\u003c\/i\u003e is dramatic, tragic, and necessary reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Villarosa's empathic and sharp-sighted journalism is as astute as it is groundbreaking, as brilliant as it is timely. Let the conversations begin!'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e -Jacqueline Woodson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRed at the Bone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Linda Villarosa, one of our fiercest and most cutting-edge journalists, has given us a classic for the ages. Through engrossing stories of people's real experiences and her signature rigorous reporting, she reveals the biggest picture in American life - that racism has done us all in, and produced a nation so steeped in white supremacy mythology that we cannot take care of ourselves or each other. This book is a gift, a map and a necessity, relevant for every reader who wants to understand their own time.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e -Sarah Schulman, author of \u003ci\u003eLet the Record Show\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In \u003ci\u003eUnder the Skin\u003c\/i\u003e, Linda Villarosa has written a book that will transform how you understand the relationship between race and medicine, one that makes clear the connection between our history and our health. This is a book filled with indispensable research, but also filled with humanity. Villarosa tells us important stories, and also becomes part of the story herself. I'm so glad this book exists, I will be thinking about it for a long time.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Clint Smith, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow the Word Is Passed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Linda Villarosa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516790079549,"sku":null,"price":31.34,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925849127.jpg?v=1787573124","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/under-the-skin","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}