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

 
　　長期關注LGBTQ社群、研究愛滋人權問題的西北大學新聞學助理教授史蒂芬．塔瑟，對於疫情所暴露的社會潛在問題，有深刻了解：誰能活下來，誰會因此遭受損失、甚至喪命，這其中社會結構帶來的影響，遠大於生物學的因素。
 
　　在本書中，塔瑟帶領讀者看見承受最大風險的「病毒下層階級」，他們身處的危險，以及真實故事，將這一狀況的嚴重性，以及正視、改善問題的迫切性，呈現在讀者眼前。(文/博客來編譯)
 
　　「一部對於階級的暴行，可讀性極強、充滿人性的探索。」──娜歐蜜‧克萊恩，《天翻地覆：資本主義 vs. 氣候危機》作者

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＂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.

STEVEN W. THRASHER, PhD holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School, the first journalism professorship in the world created to focus on LGBTQ research. He is also a faculty member of Northwestern’s Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. His writing has been widely published by The New York Times, Guardian, Nation, Journal of American History, Esquire, BuzzFeed News and Scientific American. A recipient of grants from the Ford and Sloan foundations, Dr. Thrasher was named one of the 100 most influential and impactful people of 2019 by Out magazine. He holds a PhD in American Studies and divides his time between Chicago and New York. The Viral Underclass is his first book. Twitter: @thrasherxy.