Systemic injustice takes a physical, too often deadly, toll on Black, brown, working class and poor communities, and any group who experiences systemic cultural oppression or economic exploitation. In Weathering, Dr Arline T. Geronimus argues that health and aging have more to do with how society treats us than how well we take care of ourselves.
Arline Geronimus has spent the last 40 years researching racial and class injustice in the US. Her first non-academic book is the culmination of a life’s groundbreaking work ... She presents a staggering accumulation of evidence to show how daily discrimination grinds people down ... Weathering offers hopeful solutions to health inequities. It is crisp, backed with evidence and rather heroic in spirit.
A persuasive hypothesis, enlightening biopsychosocial study of health inequities fostered by racism and classism, and an urgent call for compassion and social justice.
In the hard-driving second part of the book, Geronimus provides suggestions to create a new path forward, creating action items for readers truly interested in doing something about 'racialized injustice and the weathering it causes.' A compelling contribution to the literature on the important issue of health care inequity.
