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Title:
Disabled upon arrival : eugenics, immigration, and the construction of race and disability / Jay Timothy Dolmage.
Author:
Dolmage, Jay, author.
Publication Information:
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]

©2018
Call Number:
JV6475 .D65 2018
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780814213629

9780814254677
Physical Description:
ix, 177 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
Introduction: Immigration has never been about immigration -- ISLAND: Ellis Island and the inventions of race and disability -- PIER: Canada's Pier 21 and the memorialization of immigration -- EXPLOSION: Technologies of immigration restriction -- ARCHIVE: Affective spaces of eugenics -- Conclusion: Responsibility for tomorrow.
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