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

"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. S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tyler, Dennis (Author)
Format: Book
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.
Noirs américains > Histoire.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Handicap > États-Unis > Histoire.
Handicap > États-Unis > Aspect sociologique > Histoire.
HISTORY / United States / General.
African Americans.
Disabilities.
Racism.
Slavery.
Sociology of disability.
United States.
DEI Titles.
History.
Table of 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.