Join us for

A Reading of 

Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present (2022)

with Author

DENNIS TYLER

(Fordham University)

Followed by a Conversation with

ANNA LAQUAWN HINTON

Assistant Professor of Disability Studies and Black Literature & Culture, University of North Texas

Moderated by Mara Mills

Thursday, December 1, 2022. 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. EST.

Disabilities of the Color Line 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 Color Line maintains that the Black literary tradition historically has inverted this casting by exposing the disablement of racism without disclaiming disability.

Sponsored by: NYU Center for Disability Studies; Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation; Disability Studies & Advocacy; Center for Black Visual Culture/Institute for African American Affairs; NYU Department of Photography and Imaging

Dennis Tyler is an Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. An expert in African American literature, disability studies, and critical race studies, he is the author of Disabilities of the Color Line (NYU Press, 2022). His essays and reviews have been published in African American Review, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Gender: Space, The Feminist Wire, Oxford Bibliographies, and elsewhere.

Anna Hinton is an Assistant professor of Disability Studies and Black Literature & Culture. Her research interests include post-Brown Black women’s writing, Black feminist theory, critical disability studies, crip theory, reproductive justice, and hip hop studies, to name a few. She is currently writing her monograph, Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Contemporary Black Women’s Writing, which approaches conversations about aesthetics, spirituality, representation, community, sexuality, motherhood, and futurity through a Black feminist disability studies perspective.

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