Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present

by Dennis Tyler

Book Overview

Winner of Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award

ASALH 2023 Book Prize Finalist

Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America

Through 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. Disabilities of the Color Line...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479831123
• ISBN13: 9781479831128
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"