Black Crip Modern
Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability Consciousness
$72.99
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
21 July 2026
Summary
Asserts how Black artists and activists developed a disability consciousness in response to racialized disabling experiences in the early to mid-twentieth century
Black Crip Modern uncovers how early twentieth-century Black writers, artists, and activists laid the groundwork for modern disability consciousness. Under Jim Crow, Black disabled citizens were excluded from social services and medical reforms, even as racist violence, carceral surveillance, eugeni…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781479840090 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1479840092 |
| Author: | Jess Waggoner |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 21 July 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Crip |
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Critics Review
“An important, beautifully written, and brilliantly-argued book. Black Crip Modern is an accessible and compelling read for both scholars and students in a broad range of disciplines. Jesse Waggoner’s argument that Black writers from the early 20th century have much to offer contemporary theorizations of disability justice is innovative, insightful and original, and considers race and ethnicity, as well as gender, sexuality and class, in their intersections with disability, fundamentally reconstituting the archive of disability studies in the process.” - Julie A Minich, author of Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico
“Offers important interventions in the fields of Disability Studies, Black Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies by considering an overlooked set of texts by black writers and cultural producers and their responses to the racialized ideas around post-WWI institutional rehabilitation. By featuring stories essential to critical conversations about black disability, race, and progress, this study offers readers a better understanding of the structures and belief systems that determined which wounded, disabled, and crippled soldiers and citizens were deemed worthy of recuperation after the war. And, in doing so, Black Crip Modern reshapes how we think about citizenship, social justice, and the legacy of medical apartheid in the U.S.” - Diana R. Paulin, Trinity College
Jess Waggoner
Jess Waggoner is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies and English at UW-Madison.
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