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CAST 225 - Crip Theory, Activism, and Culture: Reframing Disability


Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
Credits (Range): 1 Hour
Attribute: 1 HU

New Course Added 11.09.2008.

What are the dominant framings of disability in the United States today? How has the 35 year old disability rights movement and emerging disability culture resisted those framings? This mini-course will explore these questions through history, theory, and art (film, poetry, painting, performance, etc.). Each of four sessions will focus on a particular framing of disability–disability as medical condition, as heroic, as tragic, as inability–and on disability activism and academic responses to each of those framings. This course will be taught by Visiting Professor Eli Clare in the Comparative American Studies Program. Students will meet for 2 hours a day Thursday-Sunday March 5-8, 2009, as well as attend a public lecture and discussion on Wednesday March 4, 2009.
Instructor: E. Clare
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is P/NP grading only.


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