It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Infectious Fear by Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr.
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For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines how individuals and institutions--black and white, public and private--responded to the challenges of tuberculosis in a segregated society. Reactionary white politicians and health officials promoted "racial hygiene" and sought to control TB through Jim Crow quarantines, Roberts explains. African...
Infectious Fear by Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.
This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read Infectious Fear aloud.
Infectious Fear is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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