UID:
almahu_9949597395402882
Format:
1 online resource (317 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9781479817344
Series Statement:
Crip
Content:
Through both law and custom, the colour line has cast Black people as innately disabled and thus unfit for freedom, incapable of self-governance, and contagious within the national body politic. This book maintains that the Black literary tradition historically has inverted this casting by exposing the disablement of racism without disclaiming disability. In place of a triumphalist narrative of overcoming where both disability and disablement alike are shunned, Dennis Tyler argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed what he calls the disabilities of the colour line: the historical and ongoing anti-Black systems of division that maim, immobilise, and stigmatise Black people.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2022.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9781479805846
Language:
English
