{"pk":43071,"title":"How to Tame a Wild Eardrum: On the Mad/Deaf Aesthetics of Latinx and Asian American Linguistic Identity","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This essay builds a close-reading analysis of the television series \nUndone\n,\n \nwhose treatment of race and disability suggests a framework that I call a “Mad migrant imaginary.” This imaginary is comparative and considers the racial, colonial, linguistic, and political environments in which ableism is situated. In doing so, such a framework considers colonial antecedents to the US nation-state which is simultaneously a site of struggle for accommodation of people with disabilities, while also problematizing the state’s centrality as a settler formation in disability analysis. My general claim is that without centering the racial–colonial, a disability analysis risks \npropounding\n the effects of the colonial and its inherent disabling effects. I also seek to attend to the ways that disability—which analytically tracks the distribution of vulnerability across difference—is vital for a comparative racial analysis of dispossession. I want to make it clear that disability analysis benefits greatly from racial analysis and that disability stands to enrich a critique of racism. I avoid positioning disability as a transcendent mode of difference which phases out race by implicitly assuming its parochial status for understanding the body and its differences. Instead, I suggest that attending to the generalized imposition of disablement across communities explicitly engages with the ways that race is a logic that rationalizes, promotes, and politically sanctions disablement as itself the prominent experience of being racialized partly as a function of access to citizenship, freedom of movement in the form of migration, and language sovereignty.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Comparative Ethnic Studies"},{"word":"Disability Studies"},{"word":"Settler Colonial Studies"},{"word":"Asian American Studies"},{"word":"Latinx Studies"},{"word":"Mestizaje"},{"word":"supercrip identity"},{"word":"Undone"},{"word":"Transnational American Studies"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4n26p8sv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sony","middle_name":"","last_name":"Coráñez Bolton","name_suffix":"","institution":"Amherst College","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-10-15T21:31:39+02:00","date_accepted":"2021-10-15T21:31:39+02:00","date_published":"2024-11-19T01:09:52+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/43071/galley/32093/download/"}]}