The Viral Underclass - The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION**
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE**
**WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ AWARD FOR BEST IN LITERATURE**

"An irresistibly readable and humane exploration of the barbarities of class...readers are gifted that most precious of things in these muddled times: a clear lens through which to see the world."
-Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine

From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society.

Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are on biology alone.

Told through the heart-rending stories of friends, activists, and teachers navigating the novel coronavirus, HIV, and other viruses, Dr. Thrasher brings the reader with him as he delves into the viral underclass and lays bare its inner workings. In the tradition of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste and Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, The Viral Underclass helps us understand the world more deeply by showing the fraught relationship between privilege and survival.

About the author

Steven W. Thrasher; Foreword by Jonathan M. Metzl

Summary

The paperback publication of The Viral Underclass, preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher’s powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society.

Product details

• Authors: Steven W. Thrasher; Foreword by Jonathan M. Metzl, Steven W Thrasher, Steven W. Thrasher
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781250796646
• ISBN: 978-1-250-79664-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 211 mm x 28 mm x 138 mm
• Series: Celadon Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Social discrimination & inequality, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Health systems and services, Social discrimination and social justice, Health, illness or addiction: social aspects