Structural Intimacies by Sonja Mackenzie - 9780813560977

Structural IntimaciesSexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic\nAuthor(s): Sonja Mackenzie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813560977, 978-0813560977\nSynopsis\nOne 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 Black sexualities.\n\nSonja Mackenzie elegantly ars