Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire

Examining English scientist John Langdon Down’s characterization of white intellectual disability as Asian interiority and Queensland’s racialization and targeting of Aboriginal peoples through its ostensible concern with Black Opium, Chen explores how the colonial administration of race and disability gives rise to “intoxicated” subjects often shadowed by slowness.

• | Author: Mel Y. Chen
• | Publisher: Duke University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 08, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781478025320
• | ISBN-10: 1478025328