To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against Hiv/AIDS Royles Dan
To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against Hiv/AIDS Royles Dan In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. They…
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To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against Hiv/AIDS Royles Dan
In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. 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. Members of those communities mobilized to fight the epidemic and its consequences from the beginning of the AIDS activist movement.
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. To Make the Wounded Whole offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Through interlinked