Disabilities Of The Color Line Av Dennis Tyler

<p><b><i>ASALH 2023 Book Prize Finalist</i><br/>Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America</b><br/>Through both law and custom, the color line has cast Black people as innately disabled and thus unfit for freedom, incapable of self-governance, and contagious within the national body politic. <i>Disabilities of the Color Line </i>maintains that the Black literary tradition historically has inverted this casting by exposing the disablement of racism without disclaiming disability.<br/>In place of a triumphalist narrative of overcoming where both disability and disablement alike are shunned, Dennis Tyler argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed what he calls the <i>disabilities of the color line</i>: the historical and ongoing anti-Black systems of division that maim, immobilize, and stigmatize Black people. In doing so, Tyler reveals how Black writers and activists such as David Walker, Henry Box Brown, William and Ellen Cra

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