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In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the "fantasy of identification"-the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science. From birthmarks and fingerprints to blood quantum and DNA, she examines how this fantasy has circulated between cultural representations, law, science, and policy to become one of the most powerfully institutionalized ideologies of modern society. Yet, as Samuels demonstrates, in every case, the fantasy distorts its claimed scientific basis, substituting subjective language for claimed objective fact. From its early emergence in discourses about disability fakery and fugitive slaves in the nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation in the question of sex testing at the 2012 Olympic Games, Fantasies of Identification explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity.

Explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the "fantasy of identification"—the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science. From birthmarks and fingerprints to blood quantum and DNA, she examines how this fantasy has circulated between cultural representations, law, science, and policy to become one of the most powerfully institutionalized ideologies of modern society. Yet, as Samuels demonstrates, in every case, the fantasy distorts its claimed scientific basis, substituting subjective language for claimed objective fact. From its early emergence in discourses about disability fakery and fugitive slaves in the nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation in the question of sex testing at the 2012 Olympic Games, Fantasies of Identification explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity.

Crip Temporalities /Ellen Samuels and Elizabeth Freeman, Special Issue Editors --Introduction: Crip Temporalities /Ellen Samuels and Elizabeth Freeman --May Day, 2020 /Eli Clare --Time Harms: Disabled Faculty Navigating the Accommodations Loop /Margaret Price --Six Types of Waiting in Berlin, 2017 /Christine Sun Kim, curated by Amanda Cachia --The Ethics of Pace /Moya Bailey Thrice --Unseen, Forever on Borrowed Time: Latina Feminist Reflections on Mental Disability and the Neoliberal Academy /Mariá Elena --Cepeda Poems: "These Sufferings Are What," "Hung about the Neck," "He Borrowed the River," and "Mercury Series" /Michael D. Snediker --Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care: A Crip-of-Color Critique /Jina B. Kim and Sami Schalk --Autistic Disruptions, Trans Temporalities: A Narrative "Trap Door" in Time /Jake Pyne --Paintings: But I Love My Earrings, Dys Easement, Dyschronologic, and Dystypographic /Finn Enke --Making Mental Health through Open in Emergency: A Journey in Love Letters /Mimi Khúc --The Crip Tarot Card /Matt Huynh and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, curated by Mimi Khúc --Spatial Debilities: Slow Life and Carceral Capitalism in Palestine /Jasbir K. Puar --After Crip, Crip Afters /Alison Kafer --A G A I N S T the D A Y --Protests in Lebanon /Karim Makdisi, Editor --Lebanon's October 2019 Uprising: From Solidarity to Division and Descent into the Known Unknown /Karim Makdisi --Unhatching the Egg in Lebanon's 2019 Protests: Activism, Purity, and the Real-Estatization of Civil Society /Nikolas Kosmatopoulos --Dumping Humpty-Dumpty: Blockages and Opportunities for Lebanon's Economy after the October 2019 Protests /Hannes Baumann --Lebanon's October 2019 Revolution: Inquiry into Recomposing Labor's Power --Lea Bou KhaterTeaching Lebanon's Politics in Times of the Uprising /Jamil Mouawad --Notes on Contributors.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Citizenship on the Edge: Sex/Gender/Race -- 1. When Words Don't Disappear: An Intersectional Analysis of Hate Speech -- 2. A Trinity of Inequality: Wealth, Marriage, and Masculinity -- 3. New-Old Law in the Postcolony: Regulating Sex in the Anglophone Caribbean -- 4. Institutional Changes and Women's Citizenship in the Maghreb: Toward a New Gender Regime? -- 5. The Murder of Malcoum Tate: Madness, Violence, and Black Masculinity in the Late Twentieth-Century United States -- 6. From Anomaly to Alarm: Trans and Crip Bodies in the Security State -- 7. It's Blue and It's Up to You! Examining Federal Antitrafficking Awareness Campaigns in the United States -- 8. Reproductive Warfare: Enforced Sterilizations in Peru -- Afterword. Citizenship on the Edge in the Age of COVID -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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