Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, And The Construction Of Race And Disability

A rhetorical examination of the spaces, technologies, and discourses of immigration restriction during the peak period of North American immigration in the early twentieth century. Links anti-immigration rhetoric to eugenics--and argues racist and ableist ideas about bodily values have never really gone away--

• | Author: Jay Timothy Dolmage
• | Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 190 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0814213626
• | ISBN-13: 9780814213629