You are invited to join the Expanding Connection Book Club to read and discuss Under The Skin by Linda Villarosa. The virtual discussion will be held via Zoom on Tuesday, April 22, 7:00pm – 8:30pm.
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.
Now, in Under The Skin, Linda Villarosa lays bare the forces in the American healthcare system and American society that cause Black people to “live sicker and die quicker” compared to their white counterparts.
Villarosa describes the new understanding that coping with the daily scourge of racism ages Black people prematurely. Anchored by unforgettable human stories and offering incontrovertible proof, Under The Skin is dramatic, tragic, and necessary reading.