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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Arline T. Geronimus
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes ARLINE T. GERONIMUS—Professor in the School of Public Health and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan—for a discussion of her new book Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society. She will be joined in conversation by LINDA VILLAROSA—author of Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation.\nContribute to Support Harvard Book Store\nWhile payment is not required, we are suggesting a $5 contribution to support this author series, our staff, and the future of Harvard Book Store—a locally owned, independently run Cambridge institution. In addition, by purchasing a copy of Weathering on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.\nAbout Weathering\nAmerica has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced for decades: 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. Marginalized Americans are disproportionately more likely to suffer from chronic diseases and to die at much younger ages than their middle- and upper-class white counterparts. Black mothers die during childbirth at a rate three times higher than white mothers. White kids in high-poverty Appalachian regions have a healthy life expectancy of 50 years old, while the vast majority of US youth can expect to both survive and be able-bodied at 50, with decades of healthy life expectancy ahead of them. In the face of such clear inequity, we must ask ourselves why this is, and what we can we do.\nDr. Arline T. Geronimus coined the term “weathering” to describe the effects of systemic oppression—including racism and classism—on the body. In Weathering, based on more than 30 years of research, she argues that health and aging have more to do with how society treats us than how well we take care of ourselves. She explains what happens to human bodies as they attempt to withstand and overcome the challenges and insults that society leverages at them, and details how this process ravages their health. And she proposes solutions.\nUntil now, there has been little discussion about the insidious effects of social injustice on the body. Weathering shifts the paradigm, shining a light on the topic and offering a roadmap for hope.\n
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