And Then I Stopped Trying to Fit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17826512 |
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| Authors | Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock (0000-0003-3201-8590, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-32 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2333-9489 • E-ISSN: 2333-9497 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.1.25 |
| OpenAlex | W3011009763 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
In this essay, I autoethnographically map my experience of pursuing and then denouncing the “religion” of merit into which I was indoctrinated in my white, second-generation immigrant household. I argue that my disabled body is marked as visible through medical discourse that originated within, and is in turn perpetuated by, white patriarchal discourse. This visibility interrupts the power of white invisibility, allowing a means of understanding how white normalness perpetuates a system of merit that rejects all visible, abnormal bodies while offering an unsuccessful pursuit of meritorious invisibility. The normal and invisible system of merit, when exposed, visible, and rejected, can be dismantled
Aesthetics · Biology · Immigration · Invisibility · Optics · Political science · Sociology · Visibility · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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