Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease and Racism

by Virginia Himmelsteib King and Kenneth F. Kiple

Book Overview

This is an engrossing study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on both slavery and racism. Its pages interweave the nutritional, biological, and medical sciences with demography. The book begins with an examination of the pre-slavery era in Africa and then pursues its subject into the slave societies of the West Indies and the United States. This truly interdisciplinary approach permits the blending of two distinctive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521236649
• ISBN13: 9780521236645
• Release Date: November 1981
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"