Summary: This week we are joined by Matt Wray [1], a professor at Temple University, where he teaches sociology of race, culture, and health. Matt has researched suicide rates in Las Vegas [2], the city with the highest metropolitan suicide rate in the U.S. He is currently at work on a book about the “Suicide Belt” in the American West. In addition to his work on suicide, Matt has written extensively on the topic of whiteness [3] and white identity [4]. We discuss Matt’s current work on the Suicide Belt and explore the contributions sociologists can make to the study of suicide. Download Office Hours #89 [5] [1] http://www.temple.edu/sociology/wray/ [2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.002 [3] http://www.amazon.com/Not-Quite-White-Boundaries-Whiteness/dp/0822338734 [4] http://www.amazon.com/White-Trash-Race-Class-America/dp/0415916925/ [5] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH89_Wray.mp3
