A Town without Pity: AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida's Deep South

Florida Historical Society Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award

In the 1980s, the tiny town of Arcadia, Florida, was “fifty miles and fifty years from Sarasota.” With its cowboy roots, low-wage agricultural industries, and violent frontier history, Arcadia was a curious mix of the desolate ranchlands of West Texas and the stately homes and bitter race relations of the South. I...