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By focusing on the politics of disability as a pillar of Czechoslovak identity, The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia: Segregating in the Name of the Nation reflects upon the vicissitudes of nation building over the twentieth century that led to extreme forms of institutional violence against minorities, mainly the Roma, such as forced sterilization. The authors trace the intersectionality of ethnicity and disability, which proliferated across diverse realms of public life, positioning the continuities and ruptures of interrogating propaganda and racial science during the interwar and post-war periods as establishing and reinforcing the border between a healthy Czech majority and a disabled Roma minority. The book critically revises this border that remains observable but unapproachable until it operates as a part of constructing the authenticity of a nation.

Introduction : non-linear historicizing as a method for studying health films -- The interwar obsession with family : eugenic pathos vs. humanistic skepticism -- Collective care vs. the "backward" family in Jak Vašíček přišel k nohám -- The institutionalized child as a precondition for the healthy nation in the films of Mladen Širola -- Central and Eastern European film in the search for deconstructing the institutionalized child -- The complex legacy of early animated health films in Eastern Europe -- Bacilínek (1922) on the stage of the national and global orders of health security -- Health films for children : between cultural reciprocity and popular scientism -- Health films as Bildungsroman for teaching men -- Masculinity in health films for the rural population -- Health films in the service of eugenic surveillance over women -- Sion ve světle as the first health film for the periphery : the birth of the canon -- Ikina sudbina and Dobro za zlo : extending the canon of health films to the Muslim periphery -- Films of the National Tuberculosis Association : rooting health films for the periphery in the racial hierarchies of the interwar United States.

"In Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizing the impact of ideas on everyday racism. This book attempts to interpret such a gap as a case of epistemic injustice. It underscores the historical role of ideas in race-making and provides analytical lenses for exploring cross-border transfers of whiteness in Central Europe. In the case of Roma, the scientific argument in favor of segregation continues to play an outstanding role due to a long-term focus on the limited educability of Roma. The authors trace the long-term interrelation between racializing Roma and the adaptation by Central European scholars of theories legitimizing segregation against those considered non-white, conceived as unable to become educated or "civilized." Along with legitimizing segregation, sterilization and even extermination, theorizing ineducability has laid the groundwork for negating the capacity of Roma as subjects of knowledge. Such negation has hindered practices of identity and quite literally prevented Roma in Central Europe from becoming who they are. This systematic epistemic injustice still echoes in contemporary attempts to historicize Roma in Central Europe. The authors critically investigate contemporary approaches to historicize Roma as reproducing whiteness and inevitably leading to various forms of epistemic injustice. The methodological approach herein conceptualizes critical whiteness as a practice of epistemic justice targeted at providing a sustainable platform for reflecting upon the impact of the past on the contemporary situation of Roma."--