Intoxicated
Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire
1st Edition
Published on 28. November 2023
208 pages
978-1-4780-2744-7 (ISBN)
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Mel Y. Chen explores how the mutual entanglements of race, imperialism and disability take form as a racialized and marginalized intoxicated subject.
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12/2023
Duke University Press
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Mel Y. Chen is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. They are author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect and coeditor of Crip Genealogies, both also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Intoxications, Intimacies, and Interformations 1
1. Slow Constitution: Down Syndrome and the Logic of Development 18
2. Agitation as a Chemical Way of Being 62
3. Unlearning: Intoxicated Method 100
Afterwards: Telling the End Not to Wait 142
Notes 165
Bibliography 177
Index
Introduction. Intoxications, Intimacies, and Interformations 1
1. Slow Constitution: Down Syndrome and the Logic of Development 18
2. Agitation as a Chemical Way of Being 62
3. Unlearning: Intoxicated Method 100
Afterwards: Telling the End Not to Wait 142
Notes 165
Bibliography 177
Index
