Fantasies of Identification : : Disability, Gender, Race / / Ellen Samuels.
In themid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult todistinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodiedor disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define theseidentities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in...
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Samuels, Ellen, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fantasies of Identification : Disability, Gender, Race / Ellen Samuels. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource : 12 black and white illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Cultural Front ; 10 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Crisis of Identification -- PART I. Fantasies of Fakery -- 1. Ellen Craft’s Masquerade -- 2. Confidence in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. The Disability Con Onscreen -- PART II. Fantasies of Marking -- 4. The Trials of Salomé Müller -- 5. Of Fiction and Fingerprints -- PART III. Fantasies of Measurement -- 6. Proving Disability -- 7. Revising Blood Quantum -- 8. Realms of Biocertification -- 9. DNA and the Readable Self -- Conclusion: Future Identifications -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In themid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult todistinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodiedor disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define theseidentities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in aliterally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visualculture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the “fantasy ofidentification”-the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed,verifiable, and visible through modern science. From birthmarks andfingerprints to blood quantum and DNA, she examines how this fantasy hascirculated between cultural representations, law, science, and policy to becomeone of the most powerfully institutionalized ideologies of modern society. Yet, as Samuels demonstrates, in every case, the fantasydistorts its claimed scientific basis, substituting subjective language forclaimed objective fact. Fromits early emergence in discourses about disability fakery and fugitive slavesin the nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation in the question ofsex testing at the 2012 Olympic Games, Fantasies of Identification exploresthe roots of modern understandings of bodily identity. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110728996 print 9781479812981 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479855049.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479855049 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479855049/original |
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