Black women, HIV/AIDS, and the media: communicating an epidemic in the hip hop era

HIV/AIDS;Black women;Media;Popular culture

Randolph, Carolyn A.

关键词: HIV/AIDS;    Black women;    Media;    Popular culture;   

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美国|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

This study examines the mediated representation of HIV/AIDS and blackness. Using black feminist thought, and its organizing principles— intersectionality and the matrix of domination—this analysis investigates how race, gender, class, and disease work in concert to inform media texts by and about black women living with the virus.Furthermore, this examination employs a textual analysis of the AIDS storyline on the black situation comedy Girlfriends, the AIDS character Ana Wallace in the HBO film Life Support, and the self-representation of Rae Lewis-Thornton on her personal health blog "Diva living with AIDS."Each text generates alternative representations of HIV-positive black women that contest familiar stereotypes and clichés.Overall, this study helps scholars better understand the various meanings and definitions surrounding black women in the contemporary AIDS epidemic.