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Author:   David McBride
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.596kg
ISBN:  

9780813530673

ISBN 10:   0813530679
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   10 September 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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McBride looks at the impact of scientific and technological development on people of African descent and under the influence of the US. àRecommended. * Choice * An important contribution to the history of the African Diaspora and to the history of U.S. foreign aid and public health projects. -- Joseph L. Graves, Jr. * author of The EmperorÆs New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Milleniu * A broad and probing look at race, disease, and labor in the black Atlantic, from Haiti and Liberia to the former slave states of the American republic. -- Robert N. Proctor * author of Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis * McBride looks at the impact of scientific and technological development on people of African descent and under the influence of the US. He presents four case studies: the American South, the Panama Canal Zone (where black labor was imported), Haiti (an overwhelmingly black Caribbean nation, occupied for much of its history by the US), and Liberia (an African nation founded by the US as a refuge for freed deported slaves). . . . Recommended . * Choice *

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DAVID McBRIDE is a professor of African American History at Pennsylvania State University and the author of Integrating the City of Medicine: Blacks in Philadelphia Health Care, 1910-1965 and From TB to AIDS: Epidemics Among Urban Blacks Since 1900.

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