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How Medical Racism Impacted the Work of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
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How Medical Racism Impacted the Work of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
If the Harlem Renaissance was—according to Henry Louis Gates Jr.—“surely as gay as it was black,” it was also disabled. Steeped in a nascent Black disability culture characterized by rejecting eugenics, medical segregation, and ableist politics of racial respectability, writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston used their writing to recount their experiences of racist medical abuse. In his 1944 essay for the Chicago Defender, “On Human…
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