Mark,
While I certainly would agree about the role of the eugenics movements. However, I consider they basically Apolloist in nature -cheesecake beauty verses a policy of 'exposure' i.e. child murder. You cannot get 'foundling' stories without a history of exposure. The stories of Hephaistos, Romulas and Remus, and possibly Moses are some examples. While 'exposure' also included 2nd Greek females, children born out of rape, or on days when the local priest said objected, it was mainly used against impaired children.
I think that disability discrimination goes far beyond economic oppression.
However, just a thought ... should'nt we all be 'antiDisability' rather than just be 'disabled people'?
Keith
PS As you can see my computer is back working
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:00:43 +0100 , Mark Priestley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>Keith wrote...
>
>> I think that the main link between racism and disability is
>essentially phobic in orgin, therefore both the creation of disability
>and racism come from tribal mental ill health.
>
>Interesting discussion, although I think I'd argue that the links
>between disability and racism are also institutional and fundamentally
>rooted in histories of political economy. Euro-centric racism, and the
>construction of 'race' as a concept, need to be viewed less in terms of
>'tribal' phobia than as discursive attempts to justify and normalise
>social relations of power and domination arising from a legacy of
>imperialism, not least from attempts to legitimize the political economy
>of the slave trade. There are some really important connections too in
>the history of nineteenth and twentieth eugenics movements, where
>disability, 'race' and gender functioned as interdependent categories of
>discrimination in defining so called 'racial hygiene' or 'racial
>purity'.
>
>Shelley is right about the terminology of 'race' - it seems more
>productive to think about 'anti-racism' than 'race equality' for
>example, and maybe there is some application of that to the disability
>debate. Here in the UK, a big step forward has been the Race Relations
>(Amendment) Act recognizing the institutionalized character of racism
>that extends beyond individual properties and individualized
>discrimination - there is a lot we could learn from that in approaches
>to understanding disability discrimination too.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Mark
>
>
>Just some thoughts,
>
>
>Keith
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