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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyler, Dennis, author.

Series:

Crip (Series)

Crip : new directions in disability studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Disabilities--United States--History.

Disabilities.

Sociology of disability--United States--History.

Sociology of disability.

United States.

Genre:

DEI Titles.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Rather than simply engaging in a triumphalist narrative of overcoming where both disability and disablement are shunned alike, Disabilities of the Color Line argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed disability as a part of Black social life in varied and complex ways. Sometimes their affirmation of disability serves to capture how their bodies, minds, and health have been and are made vulnerable to harm and impairment by the state and society. Sometimes their assertion of disability symbolizes a sense of commonality and community that comes not only from a recognition of the shared subjection of blackness and disability but also from a willingness to imagine and create a world distinct from the dominant social order. Through the work of David Walker, Henry Box Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, and Mamie Till-Mobley, Disabilities of the Color Line examines how Black writer-activists have engaged in an aesthetics of redress: modes of resistance that show how Black communities have rigorously acknowledged disability as a response to forms of racial injury and in the pursuit of racial and disability justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: at the threshold of the color line

David Waler's accessible Appeal

Fugitives' disabilities: the extraordinary escapes of Henry Box Brown and William and Ellen Craft

The Curious case of Jim Crow

Losing limbs in the republic: Charles Waddell Chesnutt

The Disabilities of caste: James Weldon Johnson

The Ableism of color-blind racism

Epilogue: The Problem of the color line in the age of COVID-19.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index.

ISBN:

9781479831128

1479831123

9781479805846

147980584X

OCLC:

1246675870