03186cam a2200457 i 4500 2605681531 TxAuBib 20251029120000.0 240526s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024023924 9781469680842 cloth; alk. paper 146968084X cloth; alk. paper 9781469680859 pbk.; alk. paper 1469680858 pbk.; alk. paper (OCoLC)1429887389 NcU/DLC eng rda DLC DLC TnLvILS TxAuBib rda Renfro, Paul M., 1987-, author. The life and death of Ryan White : AIDS and inequality in America / Paul M. Renfro. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024] 197 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Gender and American culture Includes bibliographical references and index. Blood and blame -- Normal activities -- AIDS victim now a celebrity -- The "country hicks" of Kokomo -- The funeral -- In Ryan's name -- Whose CARE? "In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV through contaminated blood products. In 1985, he became a household name after he was barred from attending his Indiana middle school. As Ryan appeared on nightly news broadcasts and graced the covers of popular magazines, he was embraced by music icons and well-known athletes, achieving a curious kind of stardom. Analyzing his struggle and celebrity, Paul M. Renfro's powerful biography grapples with the contested meanings of Ryan's life, death, and afterlives. As Renfro argues, Ryan's fight to attend school forced the American public to reckon with prevailing misconceptions about the AIDS epidemic. Yet his story also reinforced the hierarchies at the heart of the AIDS crisis. Because the 'innocent' Ryan had contracted HIV 'through no fault of his own,' as many put it, his story was sometimes used to blame presumably 'guilty' populations for spreading the virus. Reexamining Ryan's story through this lens, Renfro reveals how the consequences of this stigma continue to pervade policy and cultural understandings of HIV/AIDS today"-- Provided by publisher. 20251029. White, Ryan. AIDS (Disease) Biography. AIDS (Disease) Patients United States Biography. AIDS (Disease.) AIDS (Disease.) Patients Public opinion. AIDS (Disease.) Social aspects. AIDS (Disease.) Social aspects United States. AIDS (Disease.) Government policy United States. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients.) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination. Biographies. fast Gender and American culture.