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  • Disability Rhetoric

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Disability
    Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that ... Leer más

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  • Disabled Upon Arrival

    Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability

    In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as dangerous and undesirable. This premise forms the crux of Jay Timothy Dolmage’s new book Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and ... Leer más

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  • The Boy Who Loved Too Much

    A True Story of Pathological Friendliness

    The acclaimed, poignant story of a boy with Williams syndrome, a condition that makes people biologically incapable of distrust, a “well-researched, perceptive exploration of a rare genetic disorder seen through the eyes of a mother and son” (Kirkus Reviews).What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D’Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions, ... Leer más

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  • Our Nig

    or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

    The 1859 novel tracing the life of a mulatto foundling abused by a white family in 19th century New England. ... Leer más

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  • Regulating Aversion

    Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

    de Wendy Brown ...
    Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance ... Leer más

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  • Figures of Speech

    60 Ways To Turn A Phrase

    Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings" of speech reveal the apparently limitless plastic ... Leer más

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  • The Promised Land

    The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

    A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels. ... Leer más

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  • How Katie Got a Voice

    (And a Cool New Nickname)

    Ilustraciones de Ian Acker ...
    How Katie Got a Voice (and a cool new nickname) is a story of challenge, triumph, and acceptance. The students and teachers of Cherry Street School all have nicknames that celebrate their differences. But the new girl, Katie, is really different. She cant walk. She cant talk. It seems like she cant do anything! So how can the other students involve her in their activities? And how can they give ... Leer más

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    Homeless Families in America

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  • The Book of Goodbyes

    de Jillian Weise ...
    Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award The Book of Goodbyes speaks to a certain deranged love that throws into question sex, legality, gender-politics, disability, and the end of an affair. The book shifts between lyric and narrative, hyper-realism and magical realism, fact and fiction, and is organized like a play with Act I, Intermission, Act II, and Curtain Call. ... Leer más

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  • A Chosen Exile

    A History of Racial Passing in American Life

    de Allyson Hobbs ...
    Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women ... Leer más

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