Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire

by Mel Y. Chen

Book Overview

In Intoxicated Mel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial relationship between race, sexuality, and disability. They focus on nineteenth-century biopolitical archives in England and Australia to show how mutual entanglements of race and disability take form through toxicity. Examining English scientist John Langdon Down's characterization of white intellectual disability as Asian interiority and Queensland's racialization and targeting of Aboriginal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478025328
• ISBN13: 9781478025320
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"