Fantasies of Identification : Disability, Gender, Race

Fantasies of Identification Disability, Gender, Race

In themid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult todistinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodiedor disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define theseidentities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Samuels, Ellen author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press [2014]
Colección:Cultural front (Series)
Materias:
Disabilities.
Identity (Psychology)
Group identity.
Identification > Social aspects.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817327906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Crisis of Identification
  • 1. Ellen Craft’s Masquerade
  • 2. Confidence in the Nineteenth Century
  • 3. The Disability Con Onscreen
  • 4. The Trials of Salomé Müller
  • 5. Of Fiction and Fingerprints
  • 6. Proving Disability
  • 7. Revising Blood Quantum
  • 8. Realms of Biocertification
  • 9. DNA and the Readable Self
  • Conclusion: Future Identifications
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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