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

Giwa Onaiwu, M. (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 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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