![]() ![]() As Dolmage argues in his earlier book, Disability Rhetoric, disability studies and rhetoric need each other, just as they share a goal to reimagine troublesome and entrenched social relations. This emphasis on public argument about the body underscores not only a key role for rhetoric in understanding eugenics, but the wider importance of disability studies beyond the niche interest it was once considered. Throughout Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability, Jay Dolmage returns to a quotation from Angus McLaren that the “chief success” of Canadian eugenicists was not in specific actions or policy changes, but “in popularizing biological arguments” (4). ![]()
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