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How Medical Racism Impacted the Work of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston

Literary Hub 22 July 2026 13h ago
How Medical Racism Impacted the Work of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
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If the Harlem Renaissance was—according to Henry Louis Gates Jr.—“surely as gay as it was black,” it was also disabled. Steeped in a nascent Black disability culture characterized by rejecting eugenics, medical segregation, and ableist politics of racial respectability, writers
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