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Disabled upon arrival : eugenics, immigration, and the construction of race and disability /

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"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 r...

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Main Author: Dolmage, Jay (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Canada > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Eugenics > Social aspects > United States.
Eugenics > Social aspects > Canada.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > United States.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > Canada.
People with disabilities > Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Eugenics > Social aspects.
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Canada.
United States.
Table of 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.