Dual Pandemics: HIV and the Coronavirus in Several Communities
February 10, 2025
Meet VCU Authors: Christopher Brooks
Start time: 12:00 p.m.
End time: 1:00 p.m
Location: Virtual
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Join us for a Meet VCU Authors talk with Christopher Brooks, Professor of Anthropology at VCU, and author of Dual Pandemics: HIV and the Coronavirus in Several Communities.
About the Author
Christopher A. Brooks, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He has produced numerous publications focusing on the African continental and Diasporan experience. He is the general editor of the 1,600-page reference work, The African American Almanac 11th Edition (Cengage/Gale, with a forward by NAACP President and CEO, Benjamin Jealous, February 2011). Brooks wrote several major chapters for the volume including “Africa and the African Diaspora,” “Blues and Jazz,” and “African Americans in the Military.” He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of African American Culture (Greenwood Press, 2010) where he wrote the chapter, “HIV and the African American Church.” His other publications include chapters in the African and African-American Religions and Religion and War volumes in the Religion and Society Series published by Routledge (2001 and 2003 respectively). He has a chapter celebrating the centennial of W.E.B. Dubois’ landmark publication, The Souls of Black Folk 100 Years Later, entitled “The Souls of Black Folk: Can a Double-Consciousness Be Heard?” (University of Missouri Press 2003), where he examined the prophetic statement DuBois made about the crucial issue of the 20th century being the race question.
As an internationally-recognized biographer, Christopher Brooks has produced several book-length manuscripts including I Never Walked Alone: The Autobiography of an American Singer (with the late Shirley Verrett, John Wiley 2003 now available in Kindle version, 2011); Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing and Rhythm and Blues (with the late Joe Evans, University of Illinois Press 2008; second paperback edition, February 2011), and Dangerous Intimacy: Ten African American Men with HIV (with Christopher Coleman, Linus Publications, June 2009).
His books have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, Opera Quarterly, Book Reporter, Opera News, Ebony Magazine, Kirkus Book Reviews, Down Beat Magazine, Jazz UK (British based), Richmond Times Dispatch, Black Issues Book Review, Publishers Weekly, La Scena Musicale Online (Italian based), The Sowetan (South African based), The Afro-American, The Chicago Crusader, and Style Magazine (Richmond based) among other publications.