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Disabilities of the color line : redressing antiblackness from slavery to the present / Dennis Tyler.

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Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in AmericaThrough both law and custom, the color line has cast Black people as innately disabled and thus unfit for freedom, incapable of self-governance, and contagious within the national body politic. Disabilities of the Color L...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Tyler, Dennis (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2022]
Series:Crip (Series)
Subjects:
African Americans > History.
Racism > United States > History.
Slavery > United States > History.
Disabilities > United States > History.
Sociology of disability > United States > History.
African Americans.
Disabilities.
Racism.
Slavery.
Sociology of disability.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Age of Slavery
  • 1. David Walker's Accessible Appeal
  • 2. Fugitives' Disabilities
  • Part II: Age of Jim Crow
  • 3. The Curious Case of Jim Crow
  • 4. Losing Limbs in the Republic
  • 5. The Disabilities of Caste
  • Part III: Age of Color Blindness
  • 6. The Ableism of Color-Blind Racism
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author.

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