TY  - BOOK
AU  - Royles,Dan
TI  - To make the wounded whole: the African American struggle against HIV/AIDS 
T2  - Justice, power and politics
SN  - 9781469659527
AV  - RA643 .T663 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - AIDS (Disease)
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - AIDS activists
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: The AIDS capital of the world --; A disease, not a lifestyle: race, sexuality, and AIDS in the City of Brotherly Love --; Nurturing growth in those empty spaces: blackness and multiculturalism in AIDS education --; Black men loving black men is a revolutionary act: gay men of African descent, the black gay renaissance, and the politics of self-esteem --; We've been doing this for a few thousand years: the nation of Islam's African AIDS cure --; There is a balm in Gilead: AIDS activism in the black church --; Stop medical apartheid from South Africa to Philadelphia: ACT UP Philadelphia and the movement for global treatment access --; The South within the North: SisterLove's intersectional approach to HIV/AIDS --; Conclusion: generations of activism; 2; b
N2  - "To make the wounded whole is the first detailed examination of African American AIDS activism in all its depth and breadth. A diverse constellation of activists, including medical professionals, black gay intellectuals, hairdressers, church pastors, Nation of Islam leaders, and recovering drug users, pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches in hopes of slowing the spread of the disease in black communities. In a set of interlinked stories that travel from Philadelphia to Atlanta to South Africa and back again, Royles shows that African American AIDS activists made room for queer sexuality within prevailing ideas about black identity at the same time that they forged links to other parts of the African diasporic world. Drawing on extensive archival research from around the country along with original oral histories, To make the wounded whole documents the diverse, creative, and at times global work of African American activists in the decades-long [fight] against HIV/AIDS"--Publisher's description
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