American Poison by Eduardo Porter

American Poison by Eduardo Porter

A sweeping examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might begin to heal.

Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States is losing ground across nearly every indicator of social health. Its race problem, argues Eduardo Porter, is largely to blame.

In American Poison, the New York Times veteran shows how racial animus has stunted the development of nearly every institution crucial for a healthy society, including organized labor, public education, and the social safety net. The consequences are profound and are only growing graver with time. Leading us through history and across America, from FDR's New Deal through Bill Clinton's welfare reform to Donald Trump's retrograde and divisive policies, Porter pieces together how racial hostility has blocked American social cohesion at every turn, producing a nation that fails not only its black and brown citizens but white Americans as well.

American Poison is at once a broad, rigorous argument, and a profound cri de coeur. Even as it illuminates our most tenacious national pathology, it points the way toward hope, illuminating the ways in which, as the nation becomes increasingly diverse, it may well be possible to construct a new understanding of racial identity--and a more cohesive society on top of it.

Eduardo Porter has been covering economics for The New York Times since January 2004, and he joined the editorial board in July 2007. In 1990, he began his media career in Mexico City as a financial correspondent for Notimex, a Mexican news service. He worked as a correspondent in Tokyo from 1991 to 1992 and London from 1992 to 1996. Porter was named editor of América Economa, a business and economics journal published in São Paulo, in the Brazilian version in 1996. In 2000, he moved to Los Angeles to work as a senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal, covering the Hispanic population in the United States.

He graduated from Mexico's Universidad Nacional Autónoma. He graduated from Imperial College in London with a master's degree in quantum fields and basic forces.

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ISBN 13	9780451494887
ISBN 10	0451494881
Title	American Poison
Author	Eduardo Porter
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2020-03-17
Number of pages	272
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