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Disability Rhetoric
Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that bodily difference is always highly rhetorical. Following from this rewriting of rhetorical history, he outlines the development of a new theory, affirming the ideas that all communication is embodied, that the body plays a central role in all expression, and that greater attention to a range of bodies is therefore essential to a better understanding of rhetorical histories, theories, and possibilities.
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Academic ableism : disability and higher education
\"Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often positioned as a distraction, a drain, a problem to be solved. The ethic of higher education encourages students and teachers alike to accentuate ability, valorize perfection, and stigmatize anything that hints at intellectual, mental, or physical weakness, even as we gesture toward the value of diversity and innovation. Examining everything from campus accommodation processes, to architecture, to popular films about college life, Dolmage argues that disability is central to higher education, and that building more inclusive schools allows better education for all\"--Back cover.
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Disabled upon Arrival: The Rhetorical Construction of Disability and Race at Ellis Island
Around 40% of the current US population can trace their ancestry through the Ellis Island immigration station in New York bay, and this essay examines Ellis Island within a rhetorical framework for exploring power relations. Immigrants to the USA were immediately examined at the station for any weakness or disability (\"poor physique\"), and in 1907 the \"feeble-minded\" category was also adopted, in addition to the pre-1900 concern to root out immigrants who were \"likely to become a public charge\"; \"moron\" was added in 1910. The place in fact became a laboratory for American eugenics and pseudo-scientific racism, and a major part of this was the Dillingham Immigration Commission's \"Dictionary of Races or Peoples\", produced in 1911; it was used to demonstrate the inferiority of peoples coming to the US from eastern and southern Europe or from Africa (Chinese immigration had already virtually ceased). The processes reflected the influential rhetoric of the Immigration Restriction League, founded in 1894 and concerned with preventing \"unfit\" aliens from weakening the national gene pool, while achieving \"normalcy\" was the approved goal.
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Disabled Upon Arrival
In North America, immigration has never been about immigration.
That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant
rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and
it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as
dangerous and undesirable. This premise forms the crux of Jay
Timothy Dolmage's new book Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics,
Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability , a
compelling examination of the spaces, technologies, and discourses
of immigration restriction during the peak period of North American
immigration in the early twentieth century. Through careful
archival research and consideration of the larger ideologies of
racialization and xenophobia, Disabled Upon Arrival links
anti-immigration rhetoric to eugenics-the flawed \"science\" of
controlling human population based on racist and ableist ideas
about bodily values. Dolmage casts an enlightening perspective on
immigration restriction, showing how eugenic ideas about the value
of bodies have never really gone away and revealing how such ideas
and attitudes continue to cast groups and individuals as disabled
upon arrival.
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Articulations
The first issue, in which Georgia's persistent throat pain is diagnosed as a result of her overuse of her vocal chords, sets the stage for the chronicle of voice loss in the subsequent issues. 1. In this sequence-what we have come to call the \"splitting\" section-Webber begins her attempt to deconstruct disability by \"demonstrating the pathology and psychic impairment within the seemingly productive art of comic book writing\" (Squier 88). Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability was published in 2018 with Ohio State University Press.
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Metis, Mêtis, Mestiza, Medusa: Rhetorical Bodies across Rhetorical Traditions
The author argues that we have chosen a rhetorical history that normalizes and silences rhetorical bodies. In response, the author exhumes an embodied history of rhetoric, reexamining the myths of the Greek goddess Metis as a means of enlivening rhetorical theory and history. The author then connects these myths to other rhetorical traditions invoked by Hélène Cixous and Gloria Anzaldúa, connecting Metis to Medusa and to mestiza consciousness. The author affirms the rhetorical power of the body, specifically of those bodies that challenge rhetorical norms.
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\Breathe Upon Us an Even Flame\: Hephaestus, History, and the Body of Rhetoric
This essay challenges accepted versions of rhetorical history by recovering the mythical figure of Hephaestus and the cunning rhetoric he embodied, metis. This critical retelling offers a new and more expansive perspective on history, rhetoric, and embodiment, as it lays bare many of our assumptions about the available means of persuasion. The author asserts that a cunning approach to rhetoric might allow for the celebration of all of our embodied differences.
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