{"product_id":"notorious-h-i-v-the-media-spectacle-of-nushawn-williams","title":"Notorious H.I.V.: The Media Spectacle of Nushawn Williams","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNotorious H.I.V.: The Media Spectacle of Nushawn Williams\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eThomas Shevory\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0816643407\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniv Of Minnesota Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2004\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e240\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe real story behind the Nushawn Williams case: media distortions, judicial contortions, ruined lives\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the fall of 1997, public authorities in Chautauqua County, New York, were granted an exception to the state's HIV confidentiality law--and released Nushawn Williams's name and picture to the press, deeming him a \"public health threat,\" the source of a \"near epidemic\" of HIV transmission. Williams, who is HIV-positive, had unprotected sex with many young women and girls and infected at least nine of them. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNotorious H.I.V.\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Shevory sorts through the ensuing media panic and legal imbroglio to tell the story behind the Nushawn Williams case. Through media reports, legal documents, and interviews with many of the participants--including Williams, who eventually pled guilty to reckless endangerment and statutory rape charges and is currently serving time in a maximum security prison in New York--Shevory exposes the significant exaggerations, misunderstandings, and distortions that riddled the Williams case from the start. He contends that Williams's portrayal as an \"AIDS monster\" served political purposes; specifically, representations of Williams helped to foster the passage of HIV-transmission statutes, resulting in criminalizing a public health problem in a virtually unprecedented fashion.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eNotorious H.I.V.\u003c\/i\u003e also traces the impact of such high-profile cases on communities. Shevory provides a nuanced portrait of the hard economic and cultural realities of Jamestown, New York, and, drawing on Williams's narratives, of the life of a lower-level drug dealer in a small upstate city. His work shows how media coverage robs individuals like Williams of their humanity, creating a pervasive atmosphere of threat that warps the integrity and fairness of the criminal justice and penal system. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Notorious H.I.V.: The Media Spectacle of Nushawn Williams | Thomas Shevory | Paperback | 0816643407 | Used: Good | Back Stacks C 1757681","offer_id":49178359759000,"sku":"1757681","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61H6FsbF7_L.jpg?v=1780070677","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/notorious-h-i-v-the-media-spectacle-of-nushawn-williams","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}