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This document summarizes an article that examines how the US media in the 1980s constructed a popular geography of AIDS by emphasizing the danger of global mobility and migration. It discusses three narratives: 1) Representing Africa as the "cradle of AIDS", linking the disease to foreignness. 2) Images of crack houses linking urban AIDS to race and class. 3) Stories of white gay men "going home to die" in rural areas, constructing the family home as a safe space. These narratives promoted the idea that bor

Author

Víctor GO

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