Most people think about the history of HIV/AIDS in the US as related to gay men. The impacts on that community were undoubtedly devastating, but immigrant communities were often the primary target of federal legislation and policy. Dr. Chávez' talk will examine how legislators used the rhetoric of 'common sense' to target racialized immigrants from the early days of the pandemic and what that meant for the making of a national identity based on age-old anxieties around immigrants as parasitic and diseased.
Presented by the Whitman Department of Rhetoric Studies and the Visiting Educator Program. Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 4:00 pm
Olin Hall, Rm 138, Auditorium
920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA
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