Category: Research

Age, Disability, and Race in Boston’s Home for Aged Colored Women 

Kathryn Angelica on

Although no images of Black women residents are extant, investigating census and public records may reveal more about their lives before their time in the Home. (Unidentified African American Woman, c. 1911-1917, Harris & Ewing photographer, Courtesy of the Library of Congress). Amelia Cubbins entered Boston’s Home for Aged Colored Women in 1860, its first… Continue Reading Age, Disability, and Race in Boston’s Home for Aged Colored Women 

Imagining “Deviance” as Disability in a Precolonial Igbo Village in Southern Nigeria: The Mgbowo Example 

Vitalis Nwashindu on

Introduction Over time, scholars of disabilities have focused on medical models and physical disfigurements as benchmarks for assessing disablement. Although physical impairments could lead to bodily damage, it was not the basis for determining disability in precolonial Mgbowo, one of the communities in northern Igboaland, Nigeria. The Mgbowo conceived disability as an act of deviation… Continue Reading Imagining “Deviance” as Disability in a Precolonial Igbo Village in Southern Nigeria: The Mgbowo Example