Download or read book In a Place So Ordinary: North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS, 1981--1997 written by Stephen Inrig and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the 20th Century, many observers viewed HIV/AIDS as a chronic disease akin to cancer or diabetes. Despite its explosive growth and tragic history, HIV disease had become normalized in America. The disease had also disproportionately come to affect Blacks in the Southern United States. The literature and historiography surrounding AIDS, however, has largely continued to portray the epidemic as a northern, coastal, and urban problem.