The boundaries of blackness : AIDS and the breakdown of Black politics / Cathy J. Cohen.

Contents The Boundaries of Black Politics -- Marginalization : Power, Identity, and Membership -- Enter AIDS : Context and Confrontation -- Invisible to the Centers for Disease Control -- All the Black People Fit to Print -- Conspiracies and Controversies -- Unsuspecting Women and the Dreaded Bisexual -- Willing to Serve, but Not to Lead -- Women, Children, and Funding -- AIDS and Beyond.
Abstract Argues that the African American community, focused primarily on racial issues of concern to middle-class heterosexual males, ignored the AIDS crisis, in which other groups are most at risk.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 363-381) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Cohen, Cathy J., 1961- Boundaries of Blackness. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999 022619051X
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