MHS-2410 Lecture 15: MHS 2410 Lecture 15: Social Construction of HIV:AIDS- Race

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Reaction of blacks to aids: paranoia inspired by previous historical syphilis genocide. For many blacks, the tuskegee study became a symbol of of their mistreatment by the medical profession, a metaphor for deceit, conspiracy, malpractice and neglect, if not outright genocide. Mistrust in the black community deepened as many white americans expressed attitudes towards aids victims that were remarkably similar to the beliefs most white americans shared about syphilitic blacks earlier in the century. Drawing connections between aids and syphilis in terms of similar reactions and assumptions. Many americans thought homosexuals need to be quarantined. The attacks on homosexuals would have sounded familiar to anyone who knew the history of white responses to sexually transmitted diseases in the black community during the progressive era. Attitudes once expressed toward the black population as sexually promiscuous, sexually threatening, and a reservoir of disease. Aids as the gay plague: punishment against those who violated the moral order.

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