{"product_id":"black-crip-modern-jess-waggoner-9781479840090","title":"Black Crip Modern: Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsserts how Black artists and activists developed a disability consciousness in response to racialized disabling experiences in the early to mid-twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Crip Modern\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers how early twentieth-century Black writers, artists, and activists laid the groundwork for modern disability consciousness. Under Jim Crow, Black disabled citizens were excluded from social services and medical reforms, even as racist violence, carceral surveillance, eugenic logic, and exploitative labor conditions deepened disabling experiences. Through literature, film, photography, and personal testimony, Black modernists registered these compounded injustices and articulated new ways of thinking about illness, impairment, and care. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEngaging the work of figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Pauli Murray, Langston Hughes and Marita Bonner, Jess Waggoner traces how Black cultural production challenged both white supremacy and ableist ideals of progress. In their writing, Waggoner finds an early \"Black crip modern\" consciousness--one that rejected eugenic reform, critiqued racialized caregiving hierarchies, and envisioned collective care grounded in feminist and anti-carceral principles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn conversation with contemporary disability justice movements, \u003ci\u003eBlack Crip Modern\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how Black thinkers and artists forged a disability politics before it was formally named. By assembling these overlooked histories of Black ill and disabled life, Waggoner reframes the foundations of disability studies and insists that Black cultural production has always been central to the struggle for bodily autonomy, access, and justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jess Waggoner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479840092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479840090\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Jess Waggoner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48487466926335,"sku":"9781479840090","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e8f440e4-5484-485b-b51a-86e10c941138.jpg?v=1778060630","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-crip-modern-jess-waggoner-9781479840090","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}