Disabilities of the Color Line

Winner of the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award Honorable Mention for the 2022 Robert K. Martin Book Prize from the Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS) ASALH 2023 Book Prize Finalist Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America Through both law and custom, the color line has cast Black people as innately disabled and thus unfit for freedom, incapable of self-governance, and contagious within the national body politic. Disabilities of the Co