African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
292 p., Focuses on the black biological experience in slavery, in the Caribbean. It begins with a consideration of the rapidly changing disease environment after the arrival of the Spaniards; it also looks at the slave ancestors in their West African homeland and examines the ways in which the nutritional and disease environments of that area had shaped its inhabitants.
Kwame Ture, once widely in the news as black activist Stokely Carmichael, still propounds that he is "ready for the revolution." Ture, who is under treatment for prostate cancer, defines himself as a revolutionary.
We have never been able to hold a proper debate about Black genetics because the subject was hijacked by mad White nationalists to promote their ideas of how `inferior' Black people are - `great bodies but small minds'. On the other hand, it is also used by Black nationalists to argue the case for supposed Black genetic superiority.
"Focuses on AIDS/HIV cases in the Caribbean Area as of January 2003. Percentage of people affected with the disease; Information on the University of the West Indies HIV/AIDS Response Program (UWI HARP); Comments from professor Farley Cleghorn on the response of the government to the disease; Impact of the UWI HARP on the students." (author)
