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The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. They challenge the white, Western, and Northern rights-based genealogy of disability studies, showing how a single coherent narrative of the field is a mode of exclusion that relies on logics of whiteness and imperialism. The contributors examine how disability justice activists work in concert with other social justice projects, explore crip environments, create alternate disciplinary genealogies, and reject notions of the model minority. Throughout, they demonstrate how the mandate for a single genealogy of the discipline whitewashes disability and continues forms of violence. By cripping disability studies, the contributors allow for divergent histories, the coexistence of anti-ableist and antiracist theorizing, and a radically just and capacious understanding of disability. Contributors. Suzanne Bost, Mel Y. Chen, Sony Coranez Bolton, Natalia Duong, Lezlie Frye, Magda Garcia, Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, Yoo-suk Kim, Katerina Kolarova, James Kyung-Jin Lee, Stacey Park Milbern, Julie Avril Minich, Tari Young-Jung Na, Theri A. Pickens, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Jasbir K. Puar, Sami Schalk, Faith Njahira Wangari

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This is an essential anthology that challenges the existing (white, Western/Northern, imperialist) frameworks of disability studies in favor of lenses focused on transnational feminism and queer/trans of color critique and activism. -- Karla J. Strand * Ms. *

"""This is an essential anthology that challenges the existing (white, Western/Northern, imperialist) frameworks of disability studies in favor of lenses focused on transnational feminism and queer/trans of color critique and activism."" -- Karla J. Strand * Ms. *"

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Mel Y. Chen is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Alison Kafer is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and English at the University of Texas at Austin. Eunjung Kim is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Disability Studies at Syracuse University. Julie Avril Minich is Associate Professor of English and Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. TherÍ A. Pickens is Professor of English at Bates College.

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