The mark of slavery : disability, race, and gender in antebellum America /

"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 n...

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מחבר ראשי: Barclay, Jenifer L. (Author)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
סדרה:Disability histories (Series)
גישה מקוונת:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2731076
תוכן הענינים:
  • Disability, Embodiment, and Slavery in the Old South
  • Reimagined Communities: Disability and the Making of Slave Families, Communities, and Culture
  • A Dose of Law: The Dialogics of Race and Disability in Southern Slave Law and Medicine
  • "Cannibals All!" The Politics of Slavery, Ableism, and White Supremacy
  • One Hell of a Metaphor: Disability and Race on the Antebellum Stage.