What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
Wed, Jan 15
|Zoom
Join Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD author, professor, & psychiatrist, to discuss the connections between gun violence and mental illness.
Time & Location
Jan 15, 2025, 5:45 PM – 7:15 PM
Zoom
Guests
About the Event
Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl is the author of the groundbreaking book, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, the book is an in-depth look at why many working-class white Americans support politicians whose policies are literally killing them.
Being a gun violence expert, professor, and psychiatrist is a unique combination that allows Dr. Metzl to speak and write about gun violence in America, and in particular to address stereotypes that link guns with race or mental illness, or that blame mental illness for mass shootings and other gun crimes.
The topic is the focus of Dr. Metzl’s most recent book, What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms, a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection. By looking at a racially-charged mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, What We’ve Become reexamines how…