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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In Leonard Kriegel’s autoethnographical essay “Uncle Tom and Tiny Tim: Some Reflections on the Cripple as Negro” (1969) he declares “Uncle Tom and Tiny Tim are brothers under the skin.” Using what he terms a “func- tional analogy” to Blackness Kriegel traces his experiences in New York City as a so-called cripple building a case for equal treatment sociocultur- ally as well as under the law. He links the mandate that disabled people request police escorts to their destinations (suggested by former New York City mayor John Lindsay) to calling a Black man “boy” in a white crowd. Kriegel uses Frantz Fanon as an epigraph and as an interlocutor through- out to critique the injustices he experiences asserting that Blackness is both “analogy and method” even if the two are according to him not something Black America “can yet give itself.”3 In addition to these analogies Kriegel offers explanatory glosses of his life that speak to living within and internal- izing ableism: He feels as though his existence causes his mother pain. He calls his condition a public embarrassment. Within rehabilitation facilities. (LL)