scholarly journals A (Head) Case for a Mad Humanities: Sula's Shadrack and Black Madness

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley C. Stefan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Emotionally Disabled ◽  
Complex Figure ◽  
Mad Studies

This article calls for literary studies and the humanities to critically engage with the emerging subfield of Mad Studies. Developing alongside anti-psychiatry activism and Disability Studies, Mad Studies critiques how mentally and emotionally disabled individuals evidence the breadth of state violence and discrimination. After tracing a genealogy of Mad Studies, the article offers a model of a Mad literary studies approach by analyzing Shadrack from Toni Morrison's Sula (1973) as a complex figure which resists flattened readings of Black madness. The novel's scholarly history, while rich in Disability Studies readings, makes evident persistent societal neglect of distressed characters—especially distressed characters of color—as peripheral or symbolic. This article pulls from critical race theory, Disability Studies, and trauma studies to form an intersectional inquiry into the material and lived conditions of mad individuals of color. In so doing, the article demonstrates the significant possibilities of this developing interdisciplinary methodology.

scholarly journals DisCrit: os limites da interseccionalidade para pensar sobre a pessoa negra com deficiência

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Oliveira de Almeida ◽  
Luana Adriano Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory

A Critical Race Theory (CRT) pode ser conceituada como um quadro referencial que performa uma leitura racializada das relações de classe, e uma leitura de classe das relações étnico-raciais. Os Disability Studies (DS), por sua vez, consistem no programa teórico pautado pela análise dos significados e das concepções de deficiência em sociedade. Engendrada na interseccionalidade entre essas perspectivas, a DisCrit surge como um campo emergente na teoria crítica, que busca reconhecer e aprofundar as influências mútuas entre a Critical Race Theory (CRT) e os Disability Studies (DS). Sua meta imediata é descrita como o integral endereçamento da realidade interseccional de corpos marcados pela negritude e pela deficiência. Há, contudo, um objetivo estrutural de fundamentação da DisCrit, consistente no entrelaçamento dos conceitos de raça e deficiência a partir da crítica da normalidade. A partir disso, buscamos, como objetivo geral, reanalisar a estabilidade conceitual da interseccionalidade como instrumento teórico para entender a experiência da pessoa negra com deficiência. Nossos objetivos específicos são: compreender a DisCrit e seu lugar nos estudos brasileiros de deficiência; tratar da interseccionalidade como cruzamento de duas ou mais categorias socialmente marginalizadas; e propor uma noção de interseccionalidade que redefina normalidades em cor e funcionamentos. Partimos do esforço por compreender se a DisCrit, fundamentada na interseccionalidade entre raça e deficiência, endereça adequadamente as estruturas de opressão geradas pela normalidade. A metodologia utilizada pautou-se por uma pesquisa hipotético-dedutiva, com abordagem qualitativo-descritiva e com aporte fundamental na revisão bibliográfica. Apontamos para a conclusão teórica de que a DisCrit é relevante quando sustentada em uma abordagem interseccional intercategorial sensível à maneira como diferentes marcadores (estampas) sociais recaem sobre um mesmo corpo. No campo do levantamento de literatura brasileira, apontamos para a necessidade de aprofundamento de estudos que contemplem raça e deficiência como categorias enredadas por uma concepção de normalidade.

Science and Medicine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tita Chico
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
History Of

Abstract Abstract The titles reviewed in this chapter concern science and medicine studies. They represent work drawn from a variety of contexts and disciplinary perspectives, including science and technology, the history of science, literary studies, critical race theory, public health, the philosophy of science, law, ethnography, anthropology, architecture, and geology. The chapter has five sections: 1. Histories and Historicity; 2. Epistemology and Dissemination; 3. Institutions and Praxis; 4. Bodies and Subjectivities; and 5. Conversations (Journals).

scholarly journals Review of DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education by David J. Connor, Beth A. Ferri & Subini A. Annamma, Eds. (2016)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 554-558
Author(s):  
David Jaulus
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory

DisCrit places scholars from the field of Disability Studies (DS) in conversation with those from Critical Race Theory (CRT). Specifically, dis/ability is put into conversation with class- and race-based analyses to formulate an intersectional framework1. The concept of intersectionality has taken on heightened importance within Disability Studies in recent years. While Discrit is primarily intended for scholars and aspiring academics, the text also directly speaks to people like me, who identify as dis/abled.

scholarly journals Troubled Times: Disability, Sexuality and Futurity in Mozambican, Ugandan and Zimbabwean Political Cultures

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Eleanor K Jones
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Political Cultures ◽  
The Future

Abstract Since the earliest days of European expansionism, Africa has held a dual place in the Western imaginary, cast as a space of futurelessness even as white futurities were predicated on its exploitation. Appropriations of the future have persisted post-liberation, revealed in the divestment of futurity from bodies marked as queer or disabled. Drawing on historical moments and literary texts from Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe, and on insights from queer theory, critical race theory and disability studies, I seek to demonstrate that the logics of white supremacy can be seen at work in these mechanisms of exclusion, even where whiteness itself is displaced – but that literary invocation of queerness and disability can thus be used to mobilize critique of this continuity. In centring the circumscription of futurity at the heart of colonialism, heteronormativity and ableism, then, I underscore the critical value of reading these as reciprocal and inextricable systems of power.

Ahumans: A Guide to Nonmarket Living

Reified Life ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 249-270
Author(s):  
J. Paul Narkunas
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory

The conclusion brings together and extends some general lines of argument within the book. The book closes with several axioms to question the present reification of life and to offer strategies for non-market living, a user’s guide to living ahumanly that marks affinities and points of critique with new ecologies, disability studies, critical race theory, feminism, animal rights scholars, materialists and realists, and object-oriented ontologists.

scholarly journals Book Review: Organization Theory for Equity and Diversity: Leading Integrated, Socially Just Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-56
Author(s):  
Cara Costelnock
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Feminist Theories

Throughout the text, Capper explores critically oriented epistemologies such as Critical Race Theory; LatCrit, Asian, TribalCrit, and Black Crit; Disability Studies theories; feminist theories; Queer Theory, and theories of intersectionality. In each chapter she presents teaching suggestions and discussion questions to use within the classroom as well as discussion questions aimed to help aspiring leaders critically analyze their leadership strengths and limitations in order to integrate these epistemologies into practice. This review examines the suggestions for creating a learning environment that honors the diversities and strengths students bring to the classroom.

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