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Disabilities of the Color Line - Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present (Paperback)
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Disabilities of the Color Line - Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present (Paperback)
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Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social
life in America Through both law and custom, the color line has
cast Black people as innately disabled and thus unfit for freedom,
incapable of self-governance, and contagious within the national
body politic. Disabilities of the Color Line 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 color line: the historical and
ongoing anti-Black systems of division that maim, immobilize, and
stigmatize Black people. In doing so, Tyler reveals how Black
writers and activists such as David Walker, Henry Box Brown,
William and Ellen Craft, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson,
and Mamie Till-Mobley have engaged in a politics and aesthetics of
redress: modes of resistance that, in the pursuit of racial and
disability justice, acknowledged the disabling violence perpetrated
by anti-Black regimes in order to conceive or engender dynamic new
worlds that account for people of all abilities. While some writers
have affirmed disability to capture how their bodies, minds, and
health have been made vulnerable to harm and impairment by the
state and its citizens, others' assertion of disability symbolizes
a sense of community as well as a willingness to imagine and create
a world distinct from the dominant social order.
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