To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781469659503)

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fight the epidemic and its consequences from the beginning of the AIDS activist movement. They struggled not only to overcome the stigma and denial surrounding a "white gay disease" in Black America, but also to bring resources to struggling communities that were often dismissed as too "hard to reach." To Make the Wounded Whole offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists, including medical professionals, Black gay intellectuals, church pastors, Nation of Islam leaders, recovering drug users, and Black feminists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts. Through interlinked stories from Philadelphia and Atlanta to South Africa and back again, Royles documents the diverse, creative, and global work of African American activists in the decades-long battle against HIV/AIDS.

Author: Dan Royles
ISBN-10: 1469659506
ISBN-13: 9781469659503
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2020
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2021