In the excerpt of Sarah Schulman’s, Gentrification of the Mind, we see the development of the political groundwork made by the Republican Party that led to the widespread unawareness and ignorance of the AIDS epidemic. According to Schulman, the Republican Party set up a system of gentrified thinking designed to ignore the reality of the epidemic. As a result, in the play, Angels and America, by Tony Kushner, we see an underlying pattern of resentment and anger towards the ruling political class in America due to the Republican Party’s ignorance and mishandling of the AIDS epidemic. However, what is gentrified thinking and how does it relate to the problems of the AIDS epidemic in 1980’s America? According to Schulman, gentrified thinking