Disabled Upon Arrival
Subtitle: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Mar 01, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780814213629
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability