Title To make the wounded whole : the African American struggle against HIV/AIDS / Dan Royles

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations Series Justice, power and politics Justice, power, and politics. Contents 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 Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from resource home page (JSTOR, viewed January 11, 2021) Subject AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- History -- 20th century AIDS activists -- United States African Americans -- Diseases. African Americans -- Political activity Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- history Black or African American -- history History, 20th Century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans -- Diseases AIDS activists AIDS (Disease) SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469659527 1469659522 9781469659510 1469659514

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