Disability Studies

American literature is studied through the lenses of race, sexuality, and gender, if American literature needs to include disability in order to become a inclusive area of study proposed paper will focus on research approaches to disability and race in american literature. The field of Disability Studies is still growing within the academic community and narrative of disability is not racially diverse.
The concepts of disability and race intersect with one another .I am interested in examining representations of race and disability in American literature because White people with disabilities receive the most representation in the media, film, and literature However there are people with disabilities all over the world and some