The Double Consciousness and Disability Dilemma:
Trauma and the African American Veteran
The Double Consciousness and Disability Dilemma:
Trauma and the African American Veteran
Author(s): Sharon D. RaynorSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Individual Psychology, Psychology of Self, Psychoanalysis, History and theory of sociology, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Health and medicine and law, Human Ecology, Victimology, Welfare services, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti
Keywords: double consciousness; critical trauma studies; critical disability studies; Vietnam War; African American veteran; post-traumatic stress disorder; Veterans Administration;
Summary/Abstract: Daniel Morrison and Monica Casper contend that disability studies and its cultural locations have been remarkably silent on matters of the traumatic origins of many disabilities, on the ongoing relationship between shocking events, their abrupt and chronic impact, and experiences of disability. This article explores how critical disability studies must intersect with critical trauma studies to address how the African American Vietnam war veterans who, traumatized and disabled by war and conflict, are further marginalized by societal constraints of race, class and gender. This essay focus on an understanding of W.E.B. DuBois’s ideology of double-consciousness, critical race theory and cultural studies and how they can emphasize the intersection of war injury and disability with a tremendous regard for the lived racial, class and socio-economic oppressions that contributed to what military service and disabilities of the African American Vietnam veteran reveal about masculine identity.
Journal: Word and Text, A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics
- Issue Year: VIII/2018
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 207-221
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
