Black Crip Modern : Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability Consciousness / Jess Waggoner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waggoner, Jess.

Series:

Crip Series

Crip Series ; v.8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

Thurman, Wallace, 1902-1934.

McKay, Claude, 1889-1948.

Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985.

Himes, Chester, 1909-1984.

Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960.

Disability studies.

Discrimination against people with disabilities.

Local Subjects:

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

Thurman, Wallace, 1902-1934.

McKay, Claude, 1889-1948.

Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985.

Himes, Chester, 1909-1984.

Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Asserts how Black artists and activists developed a disability consciousness in response to racialized disabling experiences in the early to mid-twentieth century Black Crip Modern uncovers how early twentieth-century Black writers, artists, and activists laid the groundwork for modern disability consciousness.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

A Note to Readers on Content Warnings

Introduction: Black Crip Modern

1. "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience": Black Crip Modernist Critiques of Eugenics and Medical Segregation

2. Black Crip Care Work

3. Black Feminist Interventions in Genealogies of Mad Critique

4. Claiming Citizenship Through Disability in Ebony Magazine

Epilogue: On Waiting, Black Crip Time, and the Politics of Rest

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781479840120

OCLC:

1592689712