Fingernails Across the Chalkboard Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora

Name: Fingernails Across the Chalkboard Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780883782743

ISBN-10: 088378274X

ISBN-13: 9780883782743

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Authors: Randall Horton, M. L. Hunter, Becky Thompson, Haki R. Madhubuti

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Featuring a wide assortment of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, this powerful volume confronts the existence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the Black Diaspora. Defining a cultural dialogue that will be prevalent well into the 21st century, these writings celebrate life and the living by humanizing the effects of HIV and giving powerful voices to the affected and afflicted. The writings, presented in four major sections, speak out about the hard-hitting truths that surround HIV; the forms of abuse, such as incest and rape, which cast HIV into the lives of girls and women; the issues of grief and loss; and the range of reactions, from acceptance to denial, activism, and the search…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Third World Press
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Hiv/Aids



We real crunk



My dead



Autobiography aid



Results



Guatemalan postscript



Thembi's song



Confronting my mortality



You made me come home



Normal



Don't ask, just know



The memorial



Your mother's questions



A little magic and a lot of faith



Believe them when they say



A question of survival



Tiger claw



Code of honor



Some days other than Sunday



Isolation



Gravity



Ugo's fear



Test results



The down low



Saving African women and children one movie at a time : truth masquerades as fiction



Scope



Excerpt from EFFLUVIUM



Visiting hours are over



Tari



Grenades



Laughter lost in the hills



AIDS elegy (1981-2006)



This man (and his hound)



HIV needs assessment



The storm's eye



To the young warriors



Tallies and tolls



The rose and the hummingbird



For Robby



Who decided



A river in Africa



The vilification of Peter Mwai : a story of fear and racism



Terrorist



Timothy



Conditional coming



Willie



Rose city thorns



Satyr, Wounded



Touch



Lamar



Brown sugar



The BATA dancer



The Japanese teahouse



Mbali on Mama



Viruses



Winter



Thousands of angels



Let's confront AIDS