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Any #2015SDS peeps know when & where the 2016 conference will be? This year's tweets have made me really want to go!

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Loving the tweets at #2015SDS today - great way to find new #disabilitystudies people to follow!

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: We need not separate literary and social work.

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Racism and ableism continue to feed each other.

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: "How might we understand racial uplift alongside eugenics?"

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Examining racial uplift, intersections of genre, race, disability

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: While Binie may not marry into a family, she is part of the black race.

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Binie's misery constructed partly as being related to other's treatment of her, not just own "impairments"

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Beryl learns about meaning of humility from Binie, couched in terms of pity

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Tillman does not focus ONLY on marriage- humility, cooperation important, disabled characters still have this!

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Even a homely appearance seems to disqualify from marriage in these stories

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: While Binie Wells's disability does not affect her work/art, she does not marry, unlike the other women in story

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Beryl marries Dr. Warren, another black doctor, and they are called leaders of their races.

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Tillman's protagonist, Beryl, is also beautiful, with looks emphasized

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Focus is on Black labor and professional development, Wells goes from "crippled" servant to self-supporting artist

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Tillman's "Beryl Weston's Ambition" has Beryl return to manage family farm after mother's death

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Katherine Tillman's work has less work on her writings, mostly appearing in periodicals

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: This suggests that Harper's uplift includes active, if constrained, roles for disabled people

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Despite unfitness for marriage, disabled characters are still contributing to racial progress i.e. Tom self-sacrifice

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Harper applies this logic to black people as well, associating disability and heredity with morals/lack thereof

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Eugenic logic of family studies seeks to prevent reproduction of disabled people and criminals

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Iola marries a light-skinned black doctor who can pass as white, identifies as black, who survive through "fitness"

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: As a nurse, Iola rejects proposal of a white doctor... who is missing an arm. Disabled characters as unfit partners

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Iola shown as model/ideal, Tom a man with "defects" who dies to protect soldiers, rather than marrying

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Lots of work on Iola Leroy, less on illness/disability in the story. Iola+Harry are light-skinned siblings, freed

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Politics, morals, health gives multiple ways to think of disabled people in black communities

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Racial uplift used to report, imagine, AND enact racial progress

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: In trying to construct a "perfect' black family, disabled characters are not getting married

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Iola Leroy, Beryl Weston's Ambition are domestic allegory, have race as extended family

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#2015SDS #s123 Sydlik: Understandably, black writers then emphasize ability, intelligence, respectability (middle class)

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