Royles's project is of grand and urgent scope. He writes a history of African American reactions to HIV/AIDS over the past 40 years–historicizing protest, conspiracy, denial, structural inequity, and countless forms of bias–while also capturing a movement in progress. . . .
To Make the Wounded Whole–with its seven case studies on moments in the movement, each detailed, finely researched, and compassionately written–engages in a rich conversation about Black activism within the AIDS epidemic across almost half a century.–
Los Angeles Review of Books