WGS.250 HIV/AIDS in American Culture: Black Lives and Queer Bodies

HASS-H
same subject as 21L.481
Units: 3-0-9
MW 11:00-12:30PM

Examines cultural responses to HIV/AIDS in the US during the first fifteen years of the epidemic, prior to the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Students consider how sexuality, race, gender, class, and geography shaped the experience of HIV/AIDS and the cultural production surrounding it, as well as the legacy of this cultural production as it pertains to the communities most at risk today. Materials include mainstream press coverage, film, theater, television, popular music, comic books, literature, and visual art.

Joaquin Terrones