This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system.
The chapters in this book examine a host of sites, such as prisons, institutions for people with developmental disabilities, psychiatric hospitals, treatment centers, special education, detention centers, and group homes; explore why various sites should be understood as incarceration; and discuss the causes and effects of these sites historically and currently.
Call Number: Lincoln Park Popular Reading Collection ; 305.38896073 H3187b 2021
ISBN: 9781623175979
Publication Date: 2021-08-10
Taking on desirability politics, the limitations of gender, the connection between anti-fatness and carcerality, and the incongruity of "health" and "healthiness" for the Black fat, Harrison viscerally and vividly illustrates the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness.