Ashamed to Die: Silence, Denial, and the AIDS Epidemic in the South

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    Andrew J. Skerritt

    Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books

    Year: 2011

    Format: Hardcover

    Size: 306 pages

    ISBN: 9781569768143

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By focusing on a small town in South Carolina, this study of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the South reveals the hard truths of an ongoing and complex issue. Skerritt contends that the United States has failed to adequately address the threat of HIV and AIDS in communities of color and that taboos about love, race, and sexuality—combined with Southern conservatism, white privilege, and black oppression—continue to create an unacceptable death toll. The heartbreak of America’s failure comes alive through case studies of individuals such as Carolyn, a wild child whose rebellion coincided with the advent of AIDS, and Nita, a young woman searching for love and trapped in an abusive relationship. The results are most visible at the town’s segregated burial ground where dozens of young black men and women who have died from AIDS are laid to rest. Not only a call to action and awareness, this is a true story of how persons of faith, enduring love, and limitless forgiveness can inspire others by serving as guides for poor communities facing a public health threat burdened with conflicting moral and social conventions.

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Author: Andrew J. Skerritt
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781569768143
Size: 306 pages
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Year: 2011

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