Dan Royles is assistant professor of history at Florida International University.
To Make the Wounded Whole is a valuable addition to HIV/AIDS
historiography. It sheds light on an understudied topic and
underscores the critical role that race has played in the
pandemic's evolution"--The Journal of Southern History
[The] richly detailed narratives trace a complex web of
personalities and groups, beset with conflict and often decimated
by illness, yet tirelessly fighting to educate, agitate, and heal.
. . . The book's strength lies not in an exhaustive account or
unified narrative, but in the skillful comparison of the diverse
strategies undertaken by African Americans to fight the devastation
of HIV/AIDS. . . . Today, as we confront the most severe pandemic
of our era amidst a national reckoning around the enduring power of
white supremacy over Black lives, the heartbreaking and inspiring
stories of a generation of African American AIDS activists offer
critical guidance to our struggles for health and racial justice
today."--Black Perspectives
Necessary reading for those interested not only in how HIV/AIDS
affects African Americans, but also how Black people responded (and
continue to respond) to health inequities."--H-Sci-Med-Tech
Royles shows that activists worked to address not only the HIV/AIDS
epidemic itself but also the structural injustice that made African
Americans more vulnerable to the disease. . . . Highly
recommended."--CHOICE Reviews
Royles's project is of grand and urgent scope. He writes a history
of African American reactions to HIV/AIDS over the past 40
years--historicizing protest, conspiracy, denial, structural
inequity, and countless forms of bias--while also capturing a
movement in progress. . . . To Make the Wounded Whole--with its
seven case studies on moments in the movement, each detailed,
finely researched, and compassionately written--engages in a rich
conversation about Black activism within the AIDS epidemic across
almost half a century."--Los Angeles Review of Books
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