Axelle’s Reviews > Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection > Status Update

"After all, the entire premise of colonialism relied on white supremacy, and the entire premise of spes phthisica maintained that only superior and civilized (read: white) people could become consumptive. Acknowledging that consumption was common among enslaved, colonized, and marginalized people would have undermined not just a theory of disease, but also the project of colonialism itself."