Structural Intimacies Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic

Name: Structural Intimacies Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic
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ISBN: 9780813560977

ISBN-10: 0813560977

ISBN-13: 9780813560977

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sonja Mackenzie

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One of the most relevant social problems in contemporary American life is the continuing HIV epidemic in the Black population. With vivid ethnographic detail, this book brings together scholarship on the structural dimensions of the AIDS epidemic and the social construction of sexuality to assert that shifting forms of sexual stories—structural intimacies—are emerging, produced by the meeting of intimate lives and social structural patterns. These stories render such inequalities as racism, poverty, gender power disparities, sexual stigma, and discrimination as central not just to the dramatic, disproportionate spread of HIV in Black communities in the United States, but to the formation of…

Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 6/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Storying Sexuality in the Black AIDS Epidemic



A Liquor Store on Every Corner: Intimate States of Alcohol and HIV / AIDS



Never a Black Brokeback Mountain: Sexual Silence and the "Down Low" in the Age of AIDS



Crazy Talk: The Conspiracy Counter-Narrative in the Black AIDS Epidemic



The President, the Preacher, and Race and Racism in the Obama Era


Appendix: Methodological Matters


Notes


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Index