Vernon Press invites book chapters for a forthcoming edited volume on the subject of "Disability, Race, and Masculinity: Disabling and Resisting the Disabling of Black Masculinity."
Emerging as one of the branches of health/medical humanities, Disability Studies has been of interest to scholars and researchers from Literature, to Psychology, Medicine, Law and the Humanistic Social Sciences. The past few years have witnessed the rising importance of and interest in informing disability studies from multidisciplinary, intersectional approaches. Understanding the term ‘disability’ often ignites questions regarding how and why one’s (dis)ability is distinctly understood and construed by a composite of factors like race, gender and class. How do existing theoretical frameworks diversify the conceptual and contextual understanding of disability beyond its traditional sense, linked only with defects or disease in the biological body? How do biological-physical impairment and the broader range of disabilities (social, legal, etc.) at once overlap and stand apart?
This book proposes to bring into its ambit critical trajectories offered within and beyond the periphery of disability studies that shape the meaning of disability as a product of social injustice, not just medical condition. Disability thus becomes a mark of, a way to understand, and a new venue for critique of the formation of minority identity, interrogating the social construction and existence of identities subject to the politics of social control.
David Mitchell and Sharon Synder observe that, “stigmatized social positions founded upon gender, class, nationality and race have often been relied upon disability to visually underscore the devaluations of marginal communities.” Douglas Baynton reveals that discrimination in United States against people of color, women and immigrants has been justified historically by representing them as disabled. This book will incorporate chapters and articles that will broaden by bringing into conversation the critical scholarship and discourses on disability, race and masculinity. The chapters will offer comparative study of works/texts, thus presenting a new body of theory to several fields of critical scholarship; it will offer fresh research and critical approaches to primary materials rather than secondary research on the topic. After an introduction informed by a thorough review of existing scholarship, each chapter will further contribute to understanding, interpretation, and theorizing of the intersections of race, masculinity and disability and fill in gaps or create new, interrogative spaces.
Contributors will expand current disability studies and thus serve to initiate new alignments in future race, masculinity, and disability studies. This is a scholarly effort to transgress beyond conventional responses by interrogating the intersections of race, disability, and masculinity.
Chapters will address the following themes, but will not be limited to:
- Race, Masculinity and Disability in Literature and Film
- Law and Social Justice: Disabled/ing Black Masculinity in US Prisons
- Politics of Spaces: Disability, Blackness and Masculinity
- Human Rights and Black Masculinity: Negotiating Identity with (Dis)ability
- Affect, Disability, and Black Masculinity
- Resisting Disability: Reading Black Masculinity and (Dis)ability
- Writing and Resisting Racial Disability in/through Life Narratives
Chapter proposal submission
An abstract of not more than 300 words, and five keywords must also
be submitted along with a brief profile of the contributor to Dr
Sucharita Sharma, sucharita.sharma@iisuniv.ac.in
Plagiarism report of the paper along with the full paper submission.
Kindly adhere to MLA 9th Edition style of citation.
The length of the full paper should be between 4000-5000 words.
The proposed deadlines are as follows:
Deadline for abstracts submission: January 30, 2024
Acceptance of abstracts: February 15, 2024
Full chapter submission: April 20, 2024
Dr Sucharita Sharma
