DISABILITY RHETORICS FROM DISABLED UPON ARRIVAL TO ACADEMIC

DISABILITY RHETORICS: FROM “DISABLED UPON ARRIVAL TO ACADEMIC EUGENICS Your name here Jay Dolmage Address at University of Delaware, September 2014 Sponsored by the University of Delaware Center of the Study for Diversity and the University of Delaware English Department

Images from the 1918 Manual of the Mental Examination of Aliens, published by the U. S Public Health Service for the use of medical officers performing medical examinations at Ellis Island. Jay Dolmage Address at University of Delaware, September 2014 Sponsored by the University of Delaware Center of the Study for Diversity and the University of Delaware English Department

“Perumall Sammy, Hindoo, ex SS Adriatica April 14, 1911, certified for congenital deformity of the abdomen, two arms and legs being joined at the abdomen…” “Subramaino Pillay (Right) and Two Microcephalics” Jay Dolmage Address at University of Delaware, September 2014 Sponsored by the University of Delaware Center of the Study for Diversity and the University of Delaware English Department

This is a picture of my uncle Robert, taken at the institution when he was about 3 years old. Jay Dolmage Address at University of Delaware, September 2014 Sponsored by the University of Delaware Center of the Study for Diversity and the University of Delaware English Department

This is a picture of the Delaware State Hospital. Like This is a picture of my brother Matt and I and some buildings at the University of Delaware, it is a of our friends, after we have walked and rolled home Georgian Revival building, with red Flemish bond from school together. brickwork and white wood trim. Jay Dolmage Address at University of Delaware, September 2014 Sponsored by the University of Delaware Center of the Study for Diversity and the University of Delaware English Department

This is lifted from page 209 of the 1920 -21 Course Catalogue of the University of Delaware. Jay Dolmage Address at University of Delaware, September 2014 Sponsored by the University of Delaware Center of the Study for Diversity and the University of Delaware English Department

This is an image from Mark Zuckerberg’s original “Facemash, ” the precursor to Facebook. Jay Dolmage Address at University of Delaware, September 2014 Sponsored by the University of Delaware Center of the Study for Diversity and the University of Delaware English Department