Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix
Autor Nghana tamu Lewisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 ian 2025
In Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS, Nghana tamu Lewis chronicles the work of five black women creators to demonstrate how hip hop feminism operates as a vital tool for interpreting and building knowledge about the lived experiences of black women and girls. Between 1996 and 2006, novelists Sapphire and Sister Souljah, television producer Mara Brock Akil, and playwrights Nikkole Salter and Danai Gurira addressed the neglect of black women’s health in mainstream biomedical and public health discourses. At a time when responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic largely focused on gay white men, Lewis argues, these creators deployed the strategies of hip hop feminism to frame and untangle issues of self-care, risk, and the ways that caregiving roles place black women and girls at disproportionate risk of adverse health outcomes. Building on previous intersectionality and social justice advocacy scholarship, Lewis argues that Sapphire, Souljah, Brock Akil, and Salter and Gurira both documented the effects of the epidemic on black women and girls and equipped the masses with solutions-oriented responses to the crisis, thus intervening in ways that mainstream biomedical and public health research has yet to do.
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ISBN-13: 9780814259344
ISBN-10: 0814259340
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
ISBN-10: 0814259340
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Recenzii
“This is a brilliant, fascinating, welcome exploration of a topic that has historically been relegated to invisibility. Lewis masterfully assesses the ways black women creatives have deployed practical and analytical tools from generations of black feminists to allow their works to be instructive and empowering mechanisms of change.” —Trimiko Melancon, author of Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation
“By merging her close readings with sobering statistics about the impact of HIV and AIDS on Black women and girls, Lewis passionately argues for us to pay attention to the stories of Black women and the continuing effects of HIV/AIDS.” —Christina N. Baker, author of Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance
Notă biografică
Nghana tamu Lewis is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English at Tulane University. Her research and teaching focus broadly on black literary and cultural studies, black women’s health and wellness, hip hop culture, and criminal justice reform. An attorney, she was elected district court judge for St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, in 2020.
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In 1995, the year HIV/AIDS entered my life, AIDS-related complications accounted for the deaths of approximately 870,000 adults and children worldwide. In 2022, AIDS-related complications accounted for the deaths of approximately 630,000 adults and children worldwide. In 1995, 17.7 million adults and children were living with HIV and 3 million adults and children were newly infected with the virus worldwide. In 2022, 39 million adults and children were living with HIV and approximately 1.3 million adults and children were newly infected with the virus worldwide. While death and incidence rates have decreased over time, people continue to die from AIDS-related complications and become newly infected with HIV in sobering numbers. Black women and girls have been consistently, disproportionately represented in these numbers.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent surveillance data, after black, white, and Latino men who have sex with men (MSM), heterosexual black women account for the largest group of people living with HIV or AIDS in the United States. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 2020 surveillance data reveal that in sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls accounted for 63 percent of all new HIV infections and six in seven new HIV infections among adolescents aged fifteen to nineteen. Further, young women aged fifteen to twenty-four in sub-Saharan Africa were twice as likely as men to be living with HIV. This study elaborates how Sapphire, Souljah, Brock Akil, and Salter and Gurira grappled with these numbers in service of a countervailing, collective voice, at a time when HIV/AIDS’s striking impact on black women in the States and abroad was given short shrift in predominant medical, political, and popular cultural circles.
Building on the “intervention, challenge, change" tenets of black feminist thought and black feminist activism, whose developments span multiple generations, Sapphire, Souljah, Brock Akil, and Salter and Gurira used the analytic and practical tools of hip hop feminism to foster a continuum of knowledge, between 1996 and 2006, in response to the most pressing public health issue affecting black women and girls during this historical period: HIV/AIDS. In the historical context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, 1996 to 2006 is conventionally marked, on one end, by the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy to treat HIV infection and, on the other end, by the first annual observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day in the United States. The span of 1996 to 2006 also marks the period of national and global reckoning with jarring incidence and prevalence rates of HIV/AIDS among black women and girls and the corresponding revelation that these data were foreseeable, but ignored, at the onset of the epidemic.
In 1996, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) published the Status and Trends of the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic from the Satellite Symposium of the 11th International Conference on AIDS, a report in which worldwide HIV/AIDS incidence rates for the previous year were documented. While the data indicated an overall slowing in AIDS incidence in the United States, they also showed a “substantive shift in the populations affected,” with incidence rates being 6.5 times greater for blacks than for whites. The data also revealed that in 1995, 20 percent of new AIDS diagnoses in the United States were among women, 15 percent of whom were infected heterosexually. In 2000, UNAIDS reported global estimates of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, indicating that women accounted for a little less than 50 percent of adults newly infected with HIV in 1999, 52 percent of AIDS-related deaths among adults for the same year, and 51 percent of AIDS-related deaths among adults since the beginning of the epidemic. Two years later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report revealed that as of December 2001, black women accounted for 58 percent of cumulative AIDS cases among adolescent and adult women of all racial and ethnic groups in the United States, and AIDS incidence rates for black women were approximately 5 times the rate of the entire US population. The neglect of these data was perhaps never more notoriously brought to light than during the 2004 vice presidential debate, when the late journalist Gwen Ifill attempted to engage then vice president Dick Cheney and vice presidential candidate John Edwards in a conversation about HIV/AIDS among black women in the United States.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent surveillance data, after black, white, and Latino men who have sex with men (MSM), heterosexual black women account for the largest group of people living with HIV or AIDS in the United States. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 2020 surveillance data reveal that in sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls accounted for 63 percent of all new HIV infections and six in seven new HIV infections among adolescents aged fifteen to nineteen. Further, young women aged fifteen to twenty-four in sub-Saharan Africa were twice as likely as men to be living with HIV. This study elaborates how Sapphire, Souljah, Brock Akil, and Salter and Gurira grappled with these numbers in service of a countervailing, collective voice, at a time when HIV/AIDS’s striking impact on black women in the States and abroad was given short shrift in predominant medical, political, and popular cultural circles.
Building on the “intervention, challenge, change" tenets of black feminist thought and black feminist activism, whose developments span multiple generations, Sapphire, Souljah, Brock Akil, and Salter and Gurira used the analytic and practical tools of hip hop feminism to foster a continuum of knowledge, between 1996 and 2006, in response to the most pressing public health issue affecting black women and girls during this historical period: HIV/AIDS. In the historical context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, 1996 to 2006 is conventionally marked, on one end, by the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy to treat HIV infection and, on the other end, by the first annual observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day in the United States. The span of 1996 to 2006 also marks the period of national and global reckoning with jarring incidence and prevalence rates of HIV/AIDS among black women and girls and the corresponding revelation that these data were foreseeable, but ignored, at the onset of the epidemic.
In 1996, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) published the Status and Trends of the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic from the Satellite Symposium of the 11th International Conference on AIDS, a report in which worldwide HIV/AIDS incidence rates for the previous year were documented. While the data indicated an overall slowing in AIDS incidence in the United States, they also showed a “substantive shift in the populations affected,” with incidence rates being 6.5 times greater for blacks than for whites. The data also revealed that in 1995, 20 percent of new AIDS diagnoses in the United States were among women, 15 percent of whom were infected heterosexually. In 2000, UNAIDS reported global estimates of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, indicating that women accounted for a little less than 50 percent of adults newly infected with HIV in 1999, 52 percent of AIDS-related deaths among adults for the same year, and 51 percent of AIDS-related deaths among adults since the beginning of the epidemic. Two years later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report revealed that as of December 2001, black women accounted for 58 percent of cumulative AIDS cases among adolescent and adult women of all racial and ethnic groups in the United States, and AIDS incidence rates for black women were approximately 5 times the rate of the entire US population. The neglect of these data was perhaps never more notoriously brought to light than during the 2004 vice presidential debate, when the late journalist Gwen Ifill attempted to engage then vice president Dick Cheney and vice presidential candidate John Edwards in a conversation about HIV/AIDS among black women in the United States.
Cuprins
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction A Tale of Three Influences: My Roots/Routes (in)to Black Women’s Health, Hip Hop, and HIV/AIDS Chapter 1 In Search of Our Mothers’ Theories: Hip Hop Feminism in Praxis Chapter 2 “Cunt Buckets” and “Bad Bitches”: Black Girl Identity Formation and Sexual Health in PUSH: A Novel and The Coldest Winter Ever Chapter 3 Transnational Flow(s): Staging Silence, Stigma, and Shame in In the Continuum Chapter 4 “Prioritized”: The Hip Hop (Re)Construction of Black Womanhood in Girlfriends and The Game Chapter 5 In Memoriam—and in Life Appendix Bibliography Index
Descriere
Chronicles how five black women creators used hip hop feminism strategies to document the HIV/AIDS epidemic’s effects on black women and girls and provide solutions-oriented responses to the crisis.