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Book SynopsisThis text explores how modern and industrial and scientific advances shaped black Atlantic population centres. It provides historical analysis of how shifting environmental factors and disease control aid from the United States affected the collective development of these populations.
Trade ReviewMcBride 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 *
