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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking Blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted Black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum...
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