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"JUST TESTING"

Race, Sex, and the Media in New York's "Baby AIDS" Debate

KAREN M. BOOTH

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In 1993, debates over mandatory HIV testing reemerged in New York when politicians and journalists launched a compaign to "unblind" results of a survey of HIV prevalence in newborns. This article reports on the findings from a content analysis of 108 "Baby AIDS" news stories published in New York newspapers in 1993 and 1994. In constructing a discourse of blame for the infection of "innocent" babies, "Baby AIDS" news stories demonstrate that racist, heterosexist, and sexist assumptions about HIV transmission, motherhood, and public HIV surveillance are fundamentally intertwined. The article concludes that arguments by AIDS analysts that homophobia and racism are distinct and independent dimensions of policy and popular understandings of HIV are not only misguided but also dangerous.

Gender & Society, Vol. 14, No. 5, 644-661 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/089124300014005004
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