Antiblack Racism and the AIDS Epidemic

Anti-Black Racism and the AIDS Epidemic: State Intimacies argues that racial disparities in HIV rates reflect the organization of racialized poverty and structural violence. Challenging the popular perception of HIV, black vulnerability to HIV in the US is shown to be created by the violent intimacy of the state.

Auteur

Adam M. Geary is Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, USA.

Contenu
Acknowledgements 1. Rethinking AIDS in Black America 2. AIDS, Place, and the Embodiment of Racism 3. Mass Incarceration and the Black AIDS Epidemic 4. Representing Global AIDS: Africa, Heterosexuality, Violence Conclusion The Politics of Crisis