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008 131112s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781479812981 (cloth : alk. paper)
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020 $a9781479859498 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a1479859494 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHM753$b.S26 2014
082 00 $a305.9/08$223
100 1 $aSamuels, Ellen Jean,$eauthor.
245 10 $aFantasies of identification :$bdisability, gender, race /$cEllen Samuels.
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$c[2014]
300 $ax, 263 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCultural front
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aEllen Craft's masquerade -- Confidence in the nineteenth century -- The disability con onscreen -- The trials of Salome Müller -- Of fiction and fingerprints -- Proving disability -- Revising blood quantum -- Realms of biocertification -- DNA and the readable self -- Conclusion: future identifications.
520 $a"In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the "fantasy of identification" - the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science. From birthmarks and fingerprints to blood quantum and DNA, she examines how this fantasy has circulated between cultural representations, law, science, and policy to become one of the most powerfully institutionalized ideologies of modern society."--back cover.
650 0 $aIdentification$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aGroup identity.
650 0 $aIdentity (Psychology)
650 0 $aDisabilities.
830 0 $aCultural front (Series)
852 00 $bleh$hHM753$i.S26 2014
852 00 $bbar$hHM753$i.S26 2014