Disabled upon arrival : eugenics, immigration, and the construction of race and disability / Jay Timothy Dolmage.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Dolmage, Jay, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Eugenics--Social aspects--United States.
• United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
• Canada--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages)

Place of Publication:

Columbus, [Ohio] : The Ohio State University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"A rhetorical examination of the spaces, technologies, and discourses of immigration restriction during the peak period of North American immigration in the early twentieth century. Links anti-immigration rhetoric to eugenics--and argues racist and ableist ideas about bodily values have never really gone away"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Introduction: Immigration has never been about immigration
• ISLAND: Ellis Island and the inventions of race and disability
• PIER: Canada's Pier 21 and the memorialization of immigration
• EXPLOSION: Technologies of immigration restriction
• ARCHIVE: Affective spaces of eugenics
• Conclusion: Responsibility for tomorrow.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 0-8142-7608-3
• 9780814213629