Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race

Index

Adorno, Theodor W., 6 African Americans, 4, 6, 28, 41–42, 57, 77–78, 107; bodies of, 12–13, 16, 31, 88–89, 202–203; disability and, 14–15, 30–31, 34, 38–39, 54, 58–60, 114, 166, 215n2, 217n20, 218n4, 219n8; discourses of marking and, 84–90, 92, 94; identity defined by blood and, 15, 42, 91, 93; literacy and, 36–37, 219n13; racial ambiguity and, 2, 18, 35–36, 92, 102, 107, 181, 185, 188, 232n30; racialist science and, 11–12. See also slavery, United States Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA), 155 Allen, Chadwick, 157 Althusser, Louis, 132 American Indians: blood quantum and, 20, 142–148, 161–162, 164–165, 168–169, 179–180, 228n3, 228n13, 229n21, 229n28; in The Confidence-Man, 58, 60; definitions of, 144–145, 148, 183, 228n1, 230n2; disability and, 165–169, 230n5, 231n18; enrollment of, 163–164; genetic testing and, 187–191, 233n8; identity claims and, 180–182, 230n3, 232n31; literary representations by, 149, 157–159; racial mixing and, 2, 92, 176; racialist science and, 11–12, 125, 175–178, 232n25; relocation of, 231n14; social movements of, 10, 228n4; visual art by, 150–156. See also Native Alaskans; Native Hawai’ians ANCSA (Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971), 155 Anderson, Benedict, 3 Andrews, William L., 44, 220n22 Barker, Joanne, 142, 151, 163 Barrett, Lindon, 13, 31, 32, 37, 218n3 Baudrillard, Jean, 68 Baynton, Douglas, 14, 217n21, 219n7, 220n4, 220n23, 224n7, 231n12 Beckenhauer, Eric, 187, 190 Berlant, Lauren, 1, 3 Bérubé, Michael, 216n14 Bhabha, Homi K., 41 biocertification, 17, 160, 183; blood quantum and, 20, 146, 161–162, 174–176, 178–182; definition of, 9, 122; disability and, 19–20, 122–126, 130, 139, 161–162, 179; genetics and, 187, 214; medical authority and, 18, 62, 178; race and, 126, 181, 230n1, 232n30; resistance to, 122, 140, 149–156, 197; sex/gender and, 126, 192, 196, 234n20–21 birthmarks, 31, 84–87, 89–94, 97, 186, 224n12 black people. See African Americans Bland, Sterling Lecater, 31–32, 34, 86 Index 260 / index ambiguous bodies in, 12, 89–94, 181, 224n14, 232n30 Craft, Ellen, 18, 23, 27–29; in Clotel, 38–39; disability and, 29–32, 36–37; as invalid, 45–48; Josephine Brown’s account of, 43–45; literacy and, 36–37; narrative of, 28, 218n2, 219n6, 219n11; portrait of, 32–34; in stage drama, 40–43; whiteness of, 34–36 Craft, William. See Craft, Ellen Cramer, Renee Ann, 183, 231n14 Cummins, Harold, 112 Daniel v. Guy, 92–93 Davis, Lennard J., 7, 51, 215n1, 226n10 Dawes Act (General Allotment Act of 1887), 162, 230n7, 231n14 Dawes Rolls, 162–164 Derricotte, Toi, 185 Derrida, Jacques, 31, 74 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 66, 70, 75-76 disability: and physical immutability, 3, 13–14, 48, 83, 98–99, 106, 113, 115–116, 125, 214; race and, 13–16, 30, 34, 59, 83, 98, 106, 112–116, 118, 162, 165–166, 169, 176, 181; sex/gender and, 14–17, 29–31, 34–36, 38, 43, 45, 48–49, 83, 89, 102, 136–137, 206, 209, 217n22, 220n23, 227n12 disability con, 18–19, 28, 36, 45, 48, 50–54, 57, 64–71, 73–79, 221n3. See also disability, fake vs. real disability definitions, 20–21; in China, 125; conflicting, 124–126, 137–138; international, 123; uncertainty of, 14, 71, 123; in the U.S., 124 disability, fake vs. real, 19, 51–54, 57–58, 60–62, 67–76, 79, 132, 181. See also disability con disabled parking, 125–140 DNA. See genetic testing Douglass, Frederick, 1, 36 Down, John Langdon H., 112, 176 Dreger, Alice Domurat, 193, 206, 209–210 Edison, Thomas, 66, 73–74 enfreakment, 101–104, 107–108, 114, 116, 202, 207, 209, 212, 222n16, 235n36 enslavement. See slavery, United States Fake Beggar, The, 66, 71–75 blood quantum, 10, 20, 162, 177–178, 183, 213; artistic representations of, 149–159; commodification of, 164, 178–182; definition of, 142–143; federal regulation of, 144–160, 228n2, 228n13, 229n16–20, 230n3; genetic testing and, 186–187, 190, 228n5, 233n10; history of, 162–166, 168, 229n14, 230n6, 230n9; Native Hawai’ians and, 164, 168–169, 172–175, 230n10, 231n16, 231n20; tribal politics of, 143–146, 157, 228n3–4, 229n21 Blumenthal, Susanna, 167 body and text, link between, 17, 19–20, 50, 52, 62, 64–65, 75, 88, 94–95, 100, 102, 118, 121–122, 196 Brown, Josephine, 35, 43–45, 57, 220n21–22 Brown, William Wells, 35, 38–40, 43–44, 89, 219n14...