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
Summary
This book brings together scholarship on the structural dimensions of the AIDS epidemic and the social construction of sexuality to address the continuing HIV epidemic in the Black population. It asserts that shifting forms of sexual stories - structural intimacies - are emerging and presents a compelling argument: in an era of deepening medicalization of HIV/AIDS, public health must move beyond individual-level interventions to community-level health equity frames and policy changes
