United States, Disability

Inequality usually based on gender, race and ethnicity. Disability justifies inequality for disabled people, women and minority groups included.
Normality: measuring, categorizing and managing populations.
Diseases of blacks commonly contributed to inferior organisms and constitutional weakness. The most pronounced race characteristic of American negro.
Higher intelligence of mullatos compared to pure blacks is evidence for superiority of whites.
Drapetomania, caused slaves to run away, disease of the mind.
Only disability might lower white person to a person marked a race.
Rhetorical tactics of suffrage opponents was to point to physical, intellectual and psychological flaws of women.
Women’s social problem was treated as a medical problem in need of special care.
Ethnicity has been defined as a disability.
Constitutional psychopathic inferiority. p.98 Idiots, feeble minded...
Once laws limiting entry of disabled people were in place, started limiting entry to undesirable ethnic groups.
Women work to remove themselves from negatively marked categories. To disassociate themselves from people who are really disabled.
In history writing, disability was ignored.
It is time to bring disability out of the margins and into the center of historical inquiry.

Rothenberg, Paula S., Race, Class, and Gender In The United States. New York: Worth, 2007