Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy is an associate professor at the University of New Brunswick.
"Between Fitness and Death is essential reading for scholars of
health, racialization, and law in the world of Atlantic slavery,
and it also gestures toward important future directions for
scholars of slavery and race, more generally." --Black Perspectives
"Bringing together a wide array of sources with carefully crafted
interpretive insight, Between Fitness and Death is a tremendous
accomplishment. . . . Hunt-Kennedy provides a theoretically
innovative framework for future scholarship on how enslaved people
in the British Caribbean and beyond perceived of and operated in
relation to the disabling power of slavery. Between Fitness and
Death deserves wide-readership." --Middle Ground Journal
"Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy's Between Fitness and Death is an excellent
introduction to disability studies for scholars rooted in histories
of slavery and of the Caribbean." --H-Slavery
"Between Fitness and Death is an engaging theoretical assessment of
the ideology of racial difference in American slavery. It is a
helpful contribution to the growing battery of factors that
historians must consider when assessing prejudice during the
period. . . . Between Fitness and Death adds fresh insight into the
origins of anti-Black racism, as well as a helpful guide to its
enduring legacy." --Journal of African American History
"A compelling argument that colonial racialization and brutality
are significant factors in the history of disability . . .
Hunt-Kennedy's fascinating and important study will challenge
future academics to look beyond fitness and death and rethink our
assumptions about how anti-Black racism and abelism have developed
in the Western World." --H-Disability
"In revealing the pervasiveness of disability among enslaved
people and the various associations between blackness and
disability, Hunt-Kennedy provides a new way of looking at the
archives of slavery. Between Fitness and Death furthers our
understanding of Caribbean slavery." --Journal of Interdisciplinary
History
"Slavery relied on the ever-present humanity of the enslaved. By
suggesting a framework of disability, Hunt-Kennedy presents a
conceptual shift that centers the human, while showing how the
conditions of slavery undermined the abilities of Africans.
Required reading for Caribbean scholars and scholars around the
globe interested in slavery.”—Sasha Turner, author of Contested
Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
"Hunt-Kennedy’s innovative take on the connections between
disability and bondage underscores how embodiment, ability, and
difference combined to shape ideologies of slavery and
understandings about who could be enslaved. Essential reading for
anyone interested in the intertwined histories of enslavement and
race in the Atlantic World."--Jenny Shaw, author of Everyday Life
in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the
Construction of Difference
"This provocative and powerful study . . . makes important
contributions to understanding Caribbean slavery." --Choice
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