212 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
11 color images
Paperback
Release Date:13 Dec 2024
ISBN:9781978840607
Hardcover
Release Date:13 Dec 2024
ISBN:9781978840614
God's Waiting Room
Racial Reckoning at Life's End
SERIES:
Global Perspectives on Aging
Rutgers University Press
Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life’s lessons, God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End considers what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them. An innovation in creative nonfiction, Casey Golomski’s years of immersive research at a nursing home in South Africa, thirty years after the end of apartheid, are narrated as a one-day, room-by-room tour. Told in breathtakingly intimate and witty conversations with the home’s residents and nurses, including the untold story of Nelson Mandela’s Robben Island prison nurse, readers learn how ageism, sexism, and racism intersect and impact health care both in South Africa and in the United States, as well as create conditions in which people primed to be enemies find grace despite the odds.
For copyright reasons, this edition is not available in the South African Development Community and Kenya.
For copyright reasons, this edition is not available in the South African Development Community and Kenya.
CASEY GOLOMSKI is an associate professor of anthropology and women and gender studies at University of New Hampshire in Durham, and lives in Medford, Massachusetts. He is the author of Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom.