Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education PDF
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Revised Pages Academic Ableism Revised Pages Corporealities: Discourses of Disability Series editors: David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder Recent Titles Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability by Shelley L. Tremain Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay Timothy Dolmage Negotiating Disability: Disclosure and Higher Education by Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Laura T. Eisenman, and James M. Jones, editors Portraits of Violence: War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement by Suzannah Biernoff Bodies of Modernism: Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature by Maren Tova Linett War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence by Anne McGuire The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment by David T. Mitchell with Sharon L. Snyder Foucault and the Government of Disability, Enlarged and Revised Edition by Shelley Tremain, editor The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel by Karen Bourrier American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History by Jenell Johnson Shakin’ All Over: Popular Music and Disability by George McKay The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing by David Bolt Disabled Veterans in History by David A. Gerber, editor Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life by Margaret Price Disability Aesthetics by Tobin Siebers Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability by Edward Wheatley Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing by G. Thomas Couser Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body by Michael Davidson The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness by Terry Rowden Disability Theory by Tobin Siebers A complete list of titles in the series can be found at www.press.umich.edu Revised Pages Academic Ableism Disability and Higher Education ••• Jay Timothy Dolmage University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor Revised Pages Copyright © 2017 by Jay Timothy Dolmage Some rights reserved This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial- No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc- nd/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Published in the United States of America by the University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America c Printed on acid- free paper 2020 2019 2018 2017 4 3 2 1 A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication data has been applied for. ISBN 978– 0- 472– 07371– 9 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978– 0- 472– 05371– 1 (paper : alk. paper) ISBN 978– 0- 472– 12341– 4 (e- book) http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9708722 Cover description for accessibility: The cover features bold colors and bold, oversize typography. Against a black background the word ACADEMIC is written in white and the word ABLEISM in red. The cover is not wide enough to accommodate the size of these words, so the words are intentionally broken: ACA-, then below this DEMIC, then below this ABLE- and then ISM (suggesting among other things that something in academia is broken). To the left is a small photograph of the sculpture Untitled (Spiral Staircase) by Peter Coffin. The sculpture consists of metal stairs that go nowhere, but instead curve back into themselves in one continuous tangle. The author’s name, Jay Timothy Dolmage, appears in the top left corner; at the bottom of the page is the subtitle of the book, DISABILITY AND HIGHER EDUCATION. Revised Pages For Marilyn Dolmage, still building inclusive schools ••• Revised Pages Revised Pages Acknowledgments ••• Thanks to all of the folks who have shared their energy and dedication through the Committee on Disability Issues in College Composition over the years, from my mentor Cindy Lewiecki- Wilson to my first, fin- est, and continued coconspirators Stephanie Kerschbaum, Margaret Price, and Amy Vidali, through to all of those who will continue this work into the future. Thanks to Brenda Brueggeman for tremendous, honest feedback. Thanks to the University of Michigan Press, the Editorial Board, and LeAnn Fields, for supporting not just the book but also its accessible delivery. This book is intended to be useful to others, to make space for future advocacy and thinking, and to be built on, critiqued, and exceeded. Like most academic work, nothing here is truly mine, nothing truly new or original. This book is the product of learning with and from others. If I could, I’d list hundreds of coauthors, with my name last. Revised Pages Revised Pages Contents ••• Introduction 1 Disability Studies and Rhetoric 5 Eugenics and Colonial Science 11 Snapshots of Exclusion 20 A Note on (Plain) Language and (Open) Access 31 Coda: Ableist Apologia 35 1. Steep Steps 41 Steep Steps to Ivory Towers 44 Eugenic Mergers 49 Building Disability 53 Sickness and Wellness 56 Climbing the Steep Steps 58 Creating Steep Steps 61 2. The Retrofit 67 Defeat Devices 73 Cover Your Ass 75 The Affect of Accommodation 79 From Eradication to Negotiation 84 Digital Curb Cuts (to Nowhere) 86 #AcademicAbleism 89 “A Rights- Demanding Bunch” 95
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