Introduction. Health Awareness and the Color Line

1. White Plague

2. Primitive's Progress

3. The Feminine Mystique of Self-Examination

4. How the Other Half Dies

5. Between Progress and Protest

6. The New Politics of Old Differences

Conclusion. The Color of Cancer

"Offers a stunning historical account of the dramatic shifts in popular and epidemiological consciousness about cancer and racial difference." Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley

"A masterful account of how the reward structures of science funding, the profession of medicine, era-specific cultural stereotypes of women's 'proper place,' and shifting notions of racialized bodies have all converged to shape our views of who is at risk of cancer, and why." Troy Duster, New York University