Reverby, Susan M. (Author)
Journal of American History
Volume: 108
Issue: 4
Pages: 885-886
Publication date: 2022
Language: English
In the face of the racism that has shaped contemporary life and death chances in this Covid era, the history of African American responses to the HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome) epidemic is particularly crucial both for its “pastness” and its current import. While histories abound on the organizing around Hiv/Aids, Dan Royles has written the first full-scale study of the responses within various American Black communities. Would that these narratives had been shared more widely last year, because they might have served as lifesavers, or at least signposts, on the way to health equity.
...MoreBook Dan Royles (2020) To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS.
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