Under the Southern Cross: Helen Keller, disability politics, and apartheid South Africa.
In 1951, deaf/blind activist Helen Keller, then seventy years old, made a 10-week tour of South Africa. She visited nearly thirty schools and institutions for the deaf and blind and attended nearly fifty meetings. Keller is well known in disability history, women's history, and progressivism. Less w...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 59 - 83 |
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