A Princeton University class curriculum slated for the upcoming fall semester claims that Black people can be considered “disabled” due to the purported systemic racism they face, according to information in a course description.
A class taught by a professor who specializes in women, gender and sexuality studies \u2013 Satyel Larson \u2013 featured a book called “Permission to Maim.” The book argues that Black people, along with other groups the author \u2013 Jasbir Puar \u2013 deemed to be oppressed by systemic racism, can be considered “disabled” since the supposed structures in place limit their agency in society.
“Black Lives Matter and the struggle to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine are not only movements ‘allied’ with disability rights, nor are they only distinct disability justice issues. Rather, I am motivated to think of these fierce organizing practices collectively as a disability justice movement itself, as a movement that is demanding an end to so many conditions of precaritization that debilitate many populations,” the book stated.
“These movements may not represent the most appealing or desired versions of disability pride. But they are movements anchored, in fact, in the lived experiences of debilitation, implicitly contesting the right to maim, and imagining multiple futures where bodily capacities and debilities are embraThe course aims to “decolonize” students’ modalities of thinking. The description focused on concepts steeped in critical race theory and webbed in “capitalism” as on the same plane as the mistreatment, discrimination and prejudice against gay people \u2013 also called “homophobia.”
“Re-orienting healing as a decolonizing process enables students to re-politicize personal trauma as it intersects with global legacies of violence, war, racism, slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, orientalism, homophobia, ableism, capitalism, and extractivism,” the course description said.
This description refers to a term called “intersectionality” which holds that an individual can be oppressed by numerous groups simultaneously.
ced rather than weaponized,” it continued.
The course participates in a new project to help illuminate how the humanities itself can offer new paths to understanding trauma and healing,” it continued.
Princeton and Larson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Larson’s research specialties included, “the intersections of law, science,\u2026 women, gender and sexuality; reproduction, health and medicine; Islam and secularism; colonialism, postcolonialism and globality.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n