Paul M. Renfro 
Life and Death of Ryan White [EPUB ebook] 
AIDS and Inequality in America

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In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV through contaminated blood products. In 1985, he became a household name after he was barred from attending his Indiana middle school. As Ryan appeared on nightly news broadcasts and graced the covers of popular magazines, he was embraced by music icons and well-known athletes, achieving a curious kind of stardom. Analyzing his struggle and celebrity, Paul M. Renfro’s powerful biography grapples with the contested meanings of Ryan’s life, death, and afterlives.As Renfro argues, Ryan’s fight to attend school forced the American public to reckon with prevailing misconceptions about the AIDS epidemic. Yet his story also reinforced the hierarchies at the heart of the AIDS crisis. Because the innocent Ryan had contracted HIV through no fault of his own, as many put it, his story was sometimes used to blame presumably guilty populations for spreading the virus. Reexamining Ryan’s story through this lens, Renfro reveals how the consequences of this stigma continue to pervade policy and cultural understandings of HIV/AIDS today.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 216 ● ISBN 9781469680880 ● Maison d’édition The University of North Carolina Press ● Publié 2024 ● Téléchargeable 3 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 10002914 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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