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

by Dennis Tyler and Tyler

Book Overview

Winner of the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award

Honorable Mention for the 2022 Robert K. Martin Book Prize from the Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS)

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...

• 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"