The viral underclass : the human toll when inequality and disease collide / Steven W. Thrasher ; [foreword by Jonathan M. Metzl].
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250796639 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1250796636 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xiv, 334 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Celadon Books, 2022.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-323) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / Jonathan M. Metzl -- An invitation: sirens, silence, standby -- I. BLAME. Mandingo: racism -- The infinite weight of zero: individualized shame -- Parasite: Capitalism -- II. LAW AND ORDER. Guilty until proven innocent: the law -- From Athens to Appalachia: austerity -- Borderlands: borders -- Cages: the liberal carceral state -- III. SOCIAL DEATH. One in two: unequal prophylaxis -- Disability as disposability: ableism -- Ride-along: speciesism -- IV. RECKONING. Release: the myth of white immunity -- Compound loss: collective punishment -- Epilogue: Why am I "me" and you are "you"? -- Support statement. |
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Subject: | Social status > Health aspects. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- > Social aspects. Viruses > Social aspects. Equality > Health aspects. |
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