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“Zora Neale Hurston suffered similar medical abuse during her visit to an expensive white-owned medical practice.”
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“The first emerged through a proliferation of Black-authored narratives centering Black disabled people.”
“His experience of chronic illness, in other words, had a profound impact on Hughes’s literary output.”
“In brief, the white disabled subject gained traction as a modern subjectivity and identity often at the expense of Black disabled people.”
“Her 1944 Negro Digest essay, “My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience,” exemplifies the dilemma of racism’s impact on Black health throughout the twentieth century.”
“The economic and social precarity created by the artistic patronage system—particularly, in this case, Hughes’s and Zora Neale Hurston’s relationships with their white patron Charlotte Osgood Mason—directly led both writers to experience medical malpractice and extortion.”
“In Hurston’s noncompliance—her refusal to leave quietly, or to pay an outrageous fee—we can observe the intertwined histories of literature, racial resistance, and a growing sense of disability justice.”
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“By the time Hughes was writing about these medical scenes of waiting in 1944, he had accumulated ample experiences of illness and deferred medical care.”
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“In response, she “got up, set my hat at a reckless angle and walked out, telling him that I would send him a check, which I never did.” By studying the literature of the Harlem Renaissance through the lens of disability…we can encounter the myriad Black disabled and ill lives that deeply contributed to the formation of modern disability rights.”
“Article continues after advertisement In his 1944 essay for the Chicago Defender , “On Human Loneliness,” Langston Hughes muses on the isolation of waiting spaces such as prison cells, dentist’s offices, and doctor’s offices.”
“In the end, the doctor charged her twenty dollars for this swift and unwelcoming visit.”