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Between Fitness and Death
- Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean
Engelsk Paperback

Between Fitness and Death

- Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean
Engelsk Paperback

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Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas about monstrosity and deformity to argue that Africans were a monstrous race, suspended between human and animal, and as such only fit for servitude. Joining blackness to disability transformed English ideas about defective bodies and minds. It also influenced understandings of race and ability even as it shaped the embodied reality of people enslaved in the British Caribbean. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy provides a three-pronged analysis of disability in the context of Atlantic slavery. First, she examines the connections of enslavement and representations of disability and the parallel development of English anti-black racism. From there, she moves from realms of representation to reality in order to illuminate the physical, emotional, and psychological impairments inflicted by slavery and endured by the enslaved. Finally, she looks at slave law as a system of enforced disablement. Audacious and powerful, Between Fitness and Death is a groundbreaking journey into the entwined histories of racism and ableism.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
244
ISBN-13:
9780252085062
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
025208506X
Udg. Dato:
4 mar 2020
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
151mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato:
4 mar 2020
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