Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

"Finalist"

"In this sobering, page-turning account, Linda Villarosa identifies racism as the recessive gene in the nation’s DNA that adversely and devastatingly affects the health of Black people and continues to rob them of years of life expectancy. The systemic factors that were exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have roots that go back centuries. As she writes, “Something about being Black is creating a health crisis, and that something is racism. It is the American problem in need of an American solution.”"