Crip Genealogies by Mel Y Chen

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Reorients the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. The contributors examine how disability justice activists work in concert with other social justice projects, explore crip environments, create alternate disciplinary genealogies, and reject notions of the model minority.

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Crip Genealogies by Mel Y Chen

The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. They challenge the white, Western, and Northern rights-based genealogy of disability studies, showing how a single coherent narrative of the field is a mode of exclusion that relies on logics of whiteness and imperialism. The contributors examine how disability justice activists work in concert with other social justice projects, explore crip environments, create alternate disciplinary genealogies, and reject notions of the model minority. Throughout, they demonstrate how the mandate for a single genealogy of the discipline whitewashes disability and continues forms of violence. By cripping disability studies, the contributors allow for divergent histories, the coexistence of anti-ableist and antiracist theorizing, and a radically just and capacious understanding of disability.

Contributors. Suzanne Bost, Mel Y. Chen, Sony CorÁÑez Bolton, Natalia Duong, Lezlie Frye, Magda GarcÍa, Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, Yoo-suk Kim, Kateřina KolÁřovÁ, James Kyung-Jin Lee, Stacey Park Milbern, Julie Avril Minich, Tari Young-Jung Na, TherÍ A. Pickens, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Jasbir K. Puar, Sami Schalk, Faith NjahÎra WangarÎ
"This is an essential anthology that challenges the existing (white, Western/Northern, imperialist) frameworks of disability studies in favor of lenses focused on transnational feminism and queer/trans of color critique and activism" -- Karla J. Strand * Ms. *
Mel Y. Chen is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Alison Kafer is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and English at the University of Texas at Austin.

Eunjung Kim is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Disability Studies at Syracuse University.

Julie Avril Minich is Associate Professor of English and Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

TherÍ A. Pickens is Professor of English at Bates College.
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ISBN 13 9781478019220
ISBN 10 1478019220
Title Crip Genealogies
Author Mel Y Chen
Series Anima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Duke University Press
Year published 2023-04-07
Number of pages 384
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.