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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Auteur principal: Samuels, Ellen Jean (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Identity (Psychology)
Group identity.
Disabilities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
group identity.
Handicap.
Identite (Psychologie)
Identite collective.
Identification > Aspect social.
Identification > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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 Salome 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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