Sami Schalk
Biographic Data
| ID | 389168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sami Schalk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sami |
| FAMILY NAME | Schalk |
| SIGNATURE | SCHALK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Black Disability Politics
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the legacy of disability justice and liberation because Black disability politics differ in language and ap…
Black Disability Politics
Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care
Since 2016, searches for and discussions of self-care in the United States have increased significantly. While authors who identify as people of color and/or queer critique the capitalist co-optation of this term by linking it conceptually to the work of Audre Lorde, engagement with disability remains conspicuously absent all around, given that Lorde's use of this concept comes from her 1988 essay on cancer, "A Burst of Light." This article propo…
Wounded Warriors of the Future Disability Hierarchy in Avatar and Source Code
The article analyzes the representation of disabled veterans in James Cameron’s Avatar and Duncan Jones’s Source Code. The argument is that these two films use the figure of the heroic, technologically enhanced, white disabled veteran man to alleviate cultural anxieties, fears, and guilt about veterans and disabled people in the contemporary United States. In doing so, however, Avatar and Source Code perpetuate a disability hierarchy that reinfor…
Integrating Race, Transforming Feminist Disability Studies
This article envisions and details a critical framework we term feminist-of-color disability studies. In offering a feminist disability studies grounded in the genealogies of US feminist-of-color theory, we identify, challenge, and counter the tendency of feminist disability studies scholars to exclude the intellectual output of women and queers of color. We contend that feminists of color have long written and theorized on topics of illness, hea…
Contextualizing Black Disability and the Culture of Dissemblance
In her foundational 1989 article, Darlene Clark Hine encourages historians to consider how systems of oppression, specifically the sexual and class exploitation of black women, impact what personal information individuals make publicly available and thus what becomes part of the historical record. Hine’s work has since been cited hundreds of times in scholarship on black women’s histories, black women’s sexuality, and the silencing that occurs ar…
Resisting Erasure
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability, showing how the genre's exploration of bodyminds that exist outside of the present open up new social and ethical possibilities.
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds-the intertwinement of the mental and the physical-in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-s…
Strategic Alterations and Afro-Asian Connections in Paul Beatty's Tuff
This essay argues that Paul Beatty’s Tuff does not simply employ or reverse stereotypes, but rather uses Afro-Asian connections to strategically alter stereotypes of urban black masculinity. In doing so, Beatty demonstrates the potential influences of polyculturalism on racial identification and affiliations
Critical Disability Studies as Methodology
Response to Julie Avril Minich, "Enabling Whom? Critical Disability Studies Now," published in Lateral 5.1. Schalk calls for a shift in thinking that directly affects action and discusses creating classroom experiences that help students to critique intersecting social structures in their everyday encounters
"Interpreting Disability Metaphor and Race in Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night
Using the example of Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night," this article argues that disability metaphors in African American literature can illuminate the mutually constitutive and overlapping relationships between ableism and antiblack racism. Analysis of the story is used to ground two larger arguments about the need for black disability studies to develop: one, more nuanced approaches to interpreting disability metaphors in Afr…
Reevaluating the Supercrip
The article assesses the term supercrip and its use in disability studies scholarship. The traditional use of the term encompasses a wide variety of representations. Therefore it is argued that in order to understand and analyze these different manifestations with specificity and nuance, we must theorize supercrip as a collection of narrative types created by different mechanisms which vary by medium and genre. The conclusion is that by attending…
Ablenationalism in American Girlhood
American Girl is a multi-product brand that is marketed transnationally through discourses of gendered empowerment and education. While previous scholarship has commented on how American Girl encourages normative gender roles, consumerism, and limited notions of diversity, no scholars, to my knowledge, have discussed disability in relation to the brand. This article explores the representation of disability in the American Girl contemporary line …
Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives
Comment from the Field: National Women's Studies Association 2013 Annual Conference, Cincinnati
National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) held its annual conference meeting November 7-10,2013. conference this year was called Negotiating Points of Encounter and included sub-themes the sacred and profane, borders and margins, futures of feminist past, politics, and practices of effecting change. While presence of disability studies and attention to accessibility within organization has been slowly increasing for several years, this year was…
Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico. Julie Avril Minich
Julie Avril Minich’s Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico is a necessary and refreshing intervention into disability studies and critical race and ethnicity studies. As one of the few monographs focused on disability and race, this book addresses how Chicana/o cultural producers, including Arturo Islas, Cherríe Moraga, Guillermo Arriaga, Ana Castillo, and Cecile Pineda, represent disability and …
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds-the intertwinement of the mental and the physical-in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-s…
Critical Disability Studies as Methodology
Response to Julie Avril Minich, "Enabling Whom? Critical Disability Studies Now," published in Lateral 5.1. Schalk calls for a shift in thinking that directly affects action and discusses creating classroom experiences that help students to critique intersecting social structures in their everyday encounters
Integrating Race, Transforming Feminist Disability Studies
This article envisions and details a critical framework we term feminist-of-color disability studies. In offering a feminist disability studies grounded in the genealogies of US feminist-of-color theory, we identify, challenge, and counter the tendency of feminist disability studies scholars to exclude the intellectual output of women and queers of color. We contend that feminists of color have long written and theorized on topics of illness, hea…
Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care
Since 2016, searches for and discussions of self-care in the United States have increased significantly. While authors who identify as people of color and/or queer critique the capitalist co-optation of this term by linking it conceptually to the work of Audre Lorde, engagement with disability remains conspicuously absent all around, given that Lorde's use of this concept comes from her 1988 essay on cancer, "A Burst of Light." This article propo…
"Interpreting Disability Metaphor and Race in Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night
Using the example of Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night," this article argues that disability metaphors in African American literature can illuminate the mutually constitutive and overlapping relationships between ableism and antiblack racism. Analysis of the story is used to ground two larger arguments about the need for black disability studies to develop: one, more nuanced approaches to interpreting disability metaphors in Afr…
Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives
Contextualizing Black Disability and the Culture of Dissemblance
In her foundational 1989 article, Darlene Clark Hine encourages historians to consider how systems of oppression, specifically the sexual and class exploitation of black women, impact what personal information individuals make publicly available and thus what becomes part of the historical record. Hine’s work has since been cited hundreds of times in scholarship on black women’s histories, black women’s sexuality, and the silencing that occurs ar…
Comment from the Field: National Women's Studies Association 2013 Annual Conference, Cincinnati
National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) held its annual conference meeting November 7-10,2013. conference this year was called Negotiating Points of Encounter and included sub-themes the sacred and profane, borders and margins, futures of feminist past, politics, and practices of effecting change. While presence of disability studies and attention to accessibility within organization has been slowly increasing for several years, this year was…
Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico. Julie Avril Minich
Julie Avril Minich’s Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico is a necessary and refreshing intervention into disability studies and critical race and ethnicity studies. As one of the few monographs focused on disability and race, this book addresses how Chicana/o cultural producers, including Arturo Islas, Cherríe Moraga, Guillermo Arriaga, Ana Castillo, and Cecile Pineda, represent disability and …
Reevaluating the Supercrip
The article assesses the term supercrip and its use in disability studies scholarship. The traditional use of the term encompasses a wide variety of representations. Therefore it is argued that in order to understand and analyze these different manifestations with specificity and nuance, we must theorize supercrip as a collection of narrative types created by different mechanisms which vary by medium and genre. The conclusion is that by attending…
Ablenationalism in American Girlhood
American Girl is a multi-product brand that is marketed transnationally through discourses of gendered empowerment and education. While previous scholarship has commented on how American Girl encourages normative gender roles, consumerism, and limited notions of diversity, no scholars, to my knowledge, have discussed disability in relation to the brand. This article explores the representation of disability in the American Girl contemporary line …
Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives
Critical Disability Studies as Methodology
Response to Julie Avril Minich, "Enabling Whom? Critical Disability Studies Now," published in Lateral 5.1. Schalk calls for a shift in thinking that directly affects action and discusses creating classroom experiences that help students to critique intersecting social structures in their everyday encounters
"Interpreting Disability Metaphor and Race in Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night
Using the example of Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night," this article argues that disability metaphors in African American literature can illuminate the mutually constitutive and overlapping relationships between ableism and antiblack racism. Analysis of the story is used to ground two larger arguments about the need for black disability studies to develop: one, more nuanced approaches to interpreting disability metaphors in Afr…
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability, showing how the genre's exploration of bodyminds that exist outside of the present open up new social and ethical possibilities.
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds-the intertwinement of the mental and the physical-in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-s…
Strategic Alterations and Afro-Asian Connections in Paul Beatty's Tuff
This essay argues that Paul Beatty’s Tuff does not simply employ or reverse stereotypes, but rather uses Afro-Asian connections to strategically alter stereotypes of urban black masculinity. In doing so, Beatty demonstrates the potential influences of polyculturalism on racial identification and affiliations
Resisting Erasure
Wounded Warriors of the Future Disability Hierarchy in Avatar and Source Code
The article analyzes the representation of disabled veterans in James Cameron’s Avatar and Duncan Jones’s Source Code. The argument is that these two films use the figure of the heroic, technologically enhanced, white disabled veteran man to alleviate cultural anxieties, fears, and guilt about veterans and disabled people in the contemporary United States. In doing so, however, Avatar and Source Code perpetuate a disability hierarchy that reinfor…
Integrating Race, Transforming Feminist Disability Studies
This article envisions and details a critical framework we term feminist-of-color disability studies. In offering a feminist disability studies grounded in the genealogies of US feminist-of-color theory, we identify, challenge, and counter the tendency of feminist disability studies scholars to exclude the intellectual output of women and queers of color. We contend that feminists of color have long written and theorized on topics of illness, hea…
Contextualizing Black Disability and the Culture of Dissemblance
In her foundational 1989 article, Darlene Clark Hine encourages historians to consider how systems of oppression, specifically the sexual and class exploitation of black women, impact what personal information individuals make publicly available and thus what becomes part of the historical record. Hine’s work has since been cited hundreds of times in scholarship on black women’s histories, black women’s sexuality, and the silencing that occurs ar…
Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care
Since 2016, searches for and discussions of self-care in the United States have increased significantly. While authors who identify as people of color and/or queer critique the capitalist co-optation of this term by linking it conceptually to the work of Audre Lorde, engagement with disability remains conspicuously absent all around, given that Lorde's use of this concept comes from her 1988 essay on cancer, "A Burst of Light." This article propo…
Black Disability Politics
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the legacy of disability justice and liberation because Black disability politics differ in language and ap…
Black Disability Politics
Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Disability studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (5 works)