She's Positive

The Extraordinary Lives of Black Women Living with HIV

Thurka Sangaramoorthy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4332-7 (ISBN)

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She’s Positive uncovers the hidden truth about the HIV epidemic in America by sharing the inspiring stories of Black women whose voices have previously been erased.

Despite the profound impact that HIV has had on Black life, the stories of African American women and their relationship with HIV have been systematically neglected. Even during unprecedented and challenging times, such as the global COVID-19 pandemic and social reckoning over racial injustice, the world has failed to notice the overlapping crises unfolding in Black communities in the United States.

She’s Positive reveals the often-invisible burden of racism and disease by featuring the voices of Black women who experience it every day. Using a combination of personal stories and photography, Thurka Sangaramoorthy centers African American women’s voices and journeys of finding meaning and community in the face of persistent violence and trauma. The book includes ethnographic research, oral history interviews, and portraits with numerous women in the Washington, D.C., area over eight years, showing how the afterlife of an epidemic still intimately and publicly shapes Black women’s lives. It reveals how the prevailing history of AIDS is embedded in white supremacy, erasing the disease’s continued and devastating impact on Black communities.

Presenting a firsthand perspective on Black women’s significant contributions to the cultural history of AIDS, She’s Positive highlights the radical moments of care, love, and determination that enable the afterlives of Black women living with HIV.

Thurka Sangaramoorthy is a professor of anthropology at American University and an affiliate professor of social anthropology at Addis Ababa University. A cultural and medical anthropologist and public health expert, Sangaramoorthy has been conducting community-engaged ethnographic research among vulnerable populations in the United States, Africa, and Latin America / the Caribbean for over twenty years. In addition to numerous critical essays on HIV, migrant health, and environmental health policy, her works include Treating AIDS: Politics of Difference, Paradox of Prevention; Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit for Collaborative Community Research (with Karen Kroeger); and Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America. Materials from the award-winning project on which this book is based, Afterlives of AIDS, are archived at the Smithsonian Institution. .

Preface

Introduction

Wonder Women

Marcella Wright
Sophia Larraine Harrison
Toya Lynnette Tolson
Patricia Ann Hobby
Shawnte’ Spriggs
Marla Tyree Dawson
Lenora Wright
Deborah Renee Sanders
Anita Byrd
TaWanda Coleman
Debra Jeanette Dyson

Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.4.2023
Zusatzinfo	42 b&w illustrations; 42 Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	203 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4875-4332-8 / 1487543328
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-4332-7 / 9781487543327
Zustand	Neuware