To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS

by Dan Royles

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469661330
• ISBN13: 9781469661339
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"