Disabilities of the Color Line
«In this bold and timely study, Dennis Tyler shows that the color line is not just a twentieth century problem, but one that began in the era of slavery and extends to the ongoing racialization of police brutality and the health disparities of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Tyler’s account, the color line is not exclusively about race, but about the entanglement of blackness and disability. Drawing on a wide range of texts, he perceptively shows how disability was enlisted to shape conceptions of blackness in the United States, and a counter-tradition in which black authors confront what Tyler calls ‘disabilities of the color line’ to challenge racial injustice and demand redress.»
Rachel Adams, Columbia University
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- New York University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781479805846
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«In this bold and timely study, Dennis Tyler shows that the color line is not just a twentieth century problem, but one that began in the era of slavery and extends to the ongoing racialization of police brutality and the health disparities of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Tyler’s account, the color line is not exclusively about race, but about the entanglement of blackness and disability. Drawing on a wide range of texts, he perceptively shows how disability was enlisted to shape conceptions of blackness in the United States, and a counter-tradition in which black authors confront what Tyler calls ‘disabilities of the color line’ to challenge racial injustice and demand redress.»
Rachel Adams, Columbia University
«For too long, a conceivable but unfounded myth has been endemic in disability studies: the idea that Black thinkers have distanced themselves from affiliations with disability in contesting the racist construction of Blackness as inherently disabled. Disabilities of the Color Line puts this theory to bed once and for all, establishing a robust record of Black intellectuals’ sustained and complex engagement with disability as both a stigma and a literal condition that white supremacist legal and political systems impose upon Black people.»
Elizabeth Bowen, Public Books, Editors' Choice 2022