{"product_id":"disabilities-of-the-color-line-9781479831128","title":"Disabilities of the Color Line","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eASALH 2023 Book Prize Finalist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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. \u003ci\u003eDisabilities of the Color Line \u003c\/i\u003emaintains that the Black literary tradition historically has inverted this casting by exposing the disablement of racism without disclaiming disability.\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003edisabilities of the color line\u003c\/i\u003e: 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 Cra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this bold and timely study, Dennis Tyler shows that the color line is not just a twentieth century problem, but one that began in the era of slavery and extends to the ongoing racialization of police brutality and the health disparities of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Tyler’s account, the color line is not exclusively about race, but about the entanglement of blackness and disability. Drawing on a wide range of texts, he perceptively shows how disability was enlisted to shape conceptions of blackness in the United States, and a counter-tradition in which black authors confront what Tyler calls ‘disabilities of the color line’ to challenge racial injustice and demand redress. * Rachel Adams, Columbia University *\u003cbr\u003eFor too long, a conceivable but unfounded myth has been endemic in disability studies: the idea that Black thinkers have distanced themselves from affiliations with disability in contesting the racist construction of Blackness as inherently disabled. \u003ci\u003eDisabilities of the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e puts this theory to bed once and for all, establishing a robust record of Black intellectuals’ sustained and complex engagement with disability as both a stigma and a literal condition that white supremacist legal and political systems impose upon Black people. -- Elizabeth Bowen * Public Books, Editors' Choice 2022 *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409070596439,"sku":"9781479831128","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479831128.jpg?v=1730505325","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disabilities-of-the-color-line-9781479831128","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}