Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION : Immigration has never been about immigration
ISLAND : Ellis Island and the inventions
of race and disability
ASSEMBLY LINES
PHYSIQUES
SPECTACLES OF DIFFERENCE
DISABLED BEFORE ARRIVAL
DISABILITY AND “NEW” RACISM
DICTIONARIES OF RACE
THE TERMS OF RHETORICAL DISABILITY
TRASH
NATIONAL ORIGINS AND A “MUSLIM BAN”
NORMALCY
EXPANSIVE REJECTION
REMOTE CONTROL
ARCHIVAL EXCESS
PIER : Canada’s Pier 21 and the
memorialization of immigration
A WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY
EXTENDING THE BORDER
THE NEGRO AND THE INDIAN
THE EUGENIC CONSTRUCTION OF INTELLECT
CLIMATIC SUITABILITY
MAGIC PROJECTIONS
“SLIGHT DEGREE DARK”
EXPLOSION : Technologies of immigration
restriction
VISUAL DESCRIPTION
PICTURING DEVIANCE
IMMIGRANT TYPE PHOTOGRAPHS
SURFACES OF EMERGENCE
PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AND THE FREAK SHOW
STAGING
DEVELOPING DISABILITY AND RACE
ROGUE’S GALLERY
ARCHIVE : Affective spaces of eugenics
FRANK WOODHULL
INDEXES
CATHEXIS
CONTEMPORARY IMMIGRATION IMAGES
MAGICAL (REJECTION AND PROTECTION) PROJECTIONS
“ALTOGETHER UNSATISFACTORY”
SHADOW ARCHIVE
RHETORICAL FOUNDATIONS
“A SEVERER SELECTION”
“POSITION AS DESIRED”
AUSTERE ARCHIVES
THE DISABLED IMMIGRANT EFFECT
CONCLUSION : Responsibility for tomorrow
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX