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Urban Kryptonite: African Roots, Foreign Diseases

(Urban Kryptonite: African Roots, Foreign Diseases)
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Original Title : Urban Kryptonite: African Roots, Foreign Diseases
Time : 232 Min
Genre : Documentary
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2014
Director : Salahdeen Asad
Writer : Salahdeen Asad
Producer : No data available
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States
Original Language : English
About : The first health documentary ever to delve deep into the mystifying quandary of disease and death in the African and African Diaspora community. Statistics show that African Americans comprise approximately 14% of America's national ...See moreThe first health documentary ever to delve deep into the mystifying quandary of disease and death in the African and African Diaspora community. Statistics show that African Americans comprise approximately 14% of America's national population. Yet they suffer disproportionately from a myriad of diseases that are believed to be "genetic." Oddly enough there is no empirical data linking the ancient ancestral continental Africans to many of these modern day so-called diseases. Contrary to conventional wisdom, enslaved Africans did not arrive to the shores of America as a sick people. This film addresses all of the folklore and propaganda associated with sickness within the African American and African Diaspora communities. See less Read more: Plot summary

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