Ittai Orr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ittai Orr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ittai |
| FAMILY NAME | Orr |
| SIGNATURE | ORR I |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
White Flight from Idiocy
Arguing against the notion that autism was waiting to be discovered before its emergence as a unique diagnosis in the late 1930s, this article traces autism's invention to the demand for a category that would preserve the “cognitive potentialities” of neurodivergent white middle-class children in the context of a panic surrounding older, racially disqualifying categories like “idiocy” and “feeble-mindedness.” Texts by authors including Willa Cath…
Robert Montgomery Bird's Neurodiversity Hypothesis
This essay interprets Robert Montgomery Bird's 1836 metempsychosis novel Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself as an early example of neurodiversity thinking, citing its capacious embrace of cognitive difference—understood not as pathology but as idiosyncrasy, temperament, and passion—and its appeal to materialist mental science. Read this way, Bird's novel becomes a prime example of what this essay names the physiopolitics of diversity, a regime of t…
The Room Where It Happened: Race and the American Revolution
The Room Where It Happened: Race and the American Revolution Ittai Orr (bio) American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804. By Alan Taylor. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016. 681pages. $37.50 (cloth). Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation. By Nicholas Guyatt. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 403pages. $29.99 (cloth). Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America. By Eberhard L. Fab…
Robert Montgomery Bird's Neurodiversity Hypothesis
This essay interprets Robert Montgomery Bird's 1836 metempsychosis novel Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself as an early example of neurodiversity thinking, citing its capacious embrace of cognitive difference—understood not as pathology but as idiosyncrasy, temperament, and passion—and its appeal to materialist mental science. Read this way, Bird's novel becomes a prime example of what this essay names the physiopolitics of diversity, a regime of t…
The Room Where It Happened: Race and the American Revolution
The Room Where It Happened: Race and the American Revolution Ittai Orr (bio) American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804. By Alan Taylor. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016. 681pages. $37.50 (cloth). Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation. By Nicholas Guyatt. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 403pages. $29.99 (cloth). Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America. By Eberhard L. Fab…
Robert Montgomery Bird's Neurodiversity Hypothesis
This essay interprets Robert Montgomery Bird's 1836 metempsychosis novel Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself as an early example of neurodiversity thinking, citing its capacious embrace of cognitive difference—understood not as pathology but as idiosyncrasy, temperament, and passion—and its appeal to materialist mental science. Read this way, Bird's novel becomes a prime example of what this essay names the physiopolitics of diversity, a regime of t…
White Flight from Idiocy
Arguing against the notion that autism was waiting to be discovered before its emergence as a unique diagnosis in the late 1930s, this article traces autism's invention to the demand for a category that would preserve the “cognitive potentialities” of neurodivergent white middle-class children in the context of a panic surrounding older, racially disqualifying categories like “idiocy” and “feeble-mindedness.” Texts by authors including Willa Cath…
Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · White (mutation (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)