Global Epidemics, Local Implications: African Immigrants and the Ebola Crisis in Dallas

by Kevin J.A. Thomas

Book Overview

How fear and stigma affected the lives of African immigrants during the global Ebola epidemic--and the resilient ways in which immigrant communities responded.

In December 2013, a series of Ebola infections in Meliandou, Guinea, set off a chain of events culminating in the world's largest Ebola epidemic. Concerns about the virus in the United States reached a peak when Thomas Duncan, a Liberian national visiting family in Dallas, became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421432994
• ISBN13: 9781421432991
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher