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BLACKNESS AND DISABILITY
BLACKNESS AND DISABILITY
Subtitle:
Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions
Book Category:
Social Science > Black Studies (Global)
Author:
Bell, Christopher M.
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 10:
1611860105
ISBN 13:
9781611860108
Price:
USD 29.95
Publication Year:
2011

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Michigan State University Press.

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Disability Studies diverge from the medical model of disability (which argues that disabled subjects can and should be "fixed") to view disability as socially constructed, much in the same way other identities are. The work of reading black and disabled bodies is not only recovery work, but work that requires a willingness to deconstruct the systems that would keep those bodies in separate spheres.

 

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