Literary Center » How medical racism influenced the work of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
According to Henry Louis Gates Jr., if there was a Harlem Renaissance, “as surely as it was gay as it was black,” it was also disabled. Steeped in a nascent black disability culture characterized by a rejection of eugenics, medical segregation, and the ableist politics of racial respectability, writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora