Fantasies of identification : disability, gender, race /

"In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically veri...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Samuels, Ellen (Ellen Jean) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Series:Cultural front (Series)
Subjects:
Identification > Social aspects.
Group identity.
Identity (Psychology)
Disabilities.
Identification > Aspect social.
Identité collective.
Identité (Psychologie)
Handicap.
group identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The crisis of identification
  • part 1. Fantasies of Fakery. Ellen Craft's masquerade ; Confidence in the nineteenth century ; The disability con onscreen
  • part 2. Fantasies of Marking. The trials of Salomé Müller ; Of fiction and fingerprints
  • part 3. Fantasies of Measurement. Proving disability ; Revising blood quantum ; Realms of biocertification ; DNA and the readable self
  • Conclusion: Future identifications.

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