Summary of Jonathan M. Metzl's Dying Of Whiteness

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 The Support Group meets at the public library in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and provides community for people who have lost loved ones to suicide.

#2 However, in the past twenty years, a more conservative and pro-gun legislature and citizenry have relaxed restrictions governing practically every aspect of buying, owning, and carrying firearms in the state. As a result, gun injuries and deaths have risen.

#3 I traveled to Missouri to learn about people’s experiences living in an increasingly armed society. I spoke with people in small towns as well as larger cities, and found that the state had become more tense, polarized, and heavily armed.

#4 While many gun owners I spoke with saw the increased availability of firearms as a positive development, many others saw it as a double standard in which society coded white gun owners as protectors and black gun owners as threats.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669352365

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#1

The Support Group meets at the public library in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and provides community for people who have lost loved ones to suicide.

#2

However, in the past twenty years, a more conservative and pro-gun legislature and citizenry have relaxed restrictions governing practically every aspect of buying, owning, and carrying firearms in the state. As a result, gun injuries and deaths have risen.

#3

I traveled to Missouri to learn about people’s experiences living in an increasingly armed society. I spoke with people in small towns as well as larger cities, and found that the state had become more tense, polarized, and heavily armed.

#4

While many gun owners I spoke with saw the increased availability of firearms as a positive development, many others saw it as a double standard in which society coded white gun owners as protectors and black gun owners as threats.

#5

I visited Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in December 2016. The city is named after Jean Baptiste de Girardot, a French soldier who established a temporary trading post in the area in the early eighteenth century. The area was heavily Republican in 2016.

#6

The language of patriotism and protection collided with the memories of extraordinary trauma and pain for many of the people I spoke with.

#7

The support group was extremely personal and isolating, but it also allowed the participants to share their experiences and coping mechanisms with one another.

#8

Despite