“Underwriting Discrimination: Risk, Redlining, and the Rhetoric of Bureaucratic Homophobia”

Headshot of Jeffrey Bennett
Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Free
Livestream

Communications colloquium by Jeffrey Bennett, this talk examines how the insurance industry rhetorically redlined those they situated at high risk of HIV infection in the 1980s and 90s.

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