“A Dream Deferred” No Longer: Backstory of the First Autism and Race Anthology

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Onaiwu, M. G. (2019). “A Dream Deferred” No Longer: Backstory of the First Autism and Race Anthology. In Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement (pp. 243-252). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_18

Publication date: 7 Nov 2019 Added to AutiHub: 5 Jul 2026 Type: Book chapter Article language: English

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Abstract

Abstract In 2017 Morénike Giwa Onaiwu as an editor alongside Lydia X. Z. Brown and E. Ashkenazy published the first-ever anthology on race and autism entitled All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism. The anthology aims to make the experiences, stories, and images of autistic people of color more public and central within the sphere of disability by giving voice to racialized activismin autism and neurodiversity.

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5
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0 / 5 (0.0%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
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2 / 5 (40.0%)
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4 / 5 (80.0%)
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Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. No detected author names are currently linked to an author already present in AutiHub. Distinct people identified as autistic: 0 / 3 (0.0%).
  1. Kimberle Crenshaw (2018). Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics [1989] . In Feminist Legal Theory (pp. 57-80). Routledge.
    Type: Book chapter DOI: 10.4324/9780429500480-5 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W64581525
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  2. Brown, L. X., Ashkenazy, E., & Giwa Onaiwu, M. (Eds.). (2017). All the weight of our dreams: On living racialized autism. Lincoln, NE: DragonBee Press.
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  3. Kimberle Crenshaw (2018). Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics . In Living with Contradictions (pp. 39-52). Routledge.
    Type: Book chapter DOI: 10.4324/9780429499142-5 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W4249292692
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  4. K Crenshaw (1989). Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 139, 139–167. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1(8), 139.
    Type: Other
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  5. Brown, Lydia X. Z. (2017). All the Weight of Our Dreams on Living Racialized Autism . All the weight of our dreams: On living racialized autism.
    Type: Article OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W6989141783
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