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How Disability Shaped American Citizenship

Rédaction · 16 juin 2026 · 1 min de lecture

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We tend to treat disability politics as a modern phenomenon, the product of disability civil rights movements in the latter part of the 20th century. It’s not: the long arc of that history, in fact, goes back to the American Revolution, whose new ideas promised some disabled white Americans an unprecedented level of inclusion—and to the decades after, when the idea that some groups of people had inherent deficits became profoundly racially coded, setting up struggles around eugenics and full American citizenship that continue to this day. In her new book Before Disability , Northeastern University professor Sari Altschuler, who studies…

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