Introduction: doing representative detective work / Chris Bell --

Coming up from underground: uneasy dialogues at the intersections of race, mental illness, and disability studies / Michelle Jarman --

Visualizing slavery: photography and the disabled subject in the art of Carrie Mae Weems / Cassandra Jackson --

Challenging invisibility, making connections: illness, survival, and black struggles in Audre Lorde's work / Stella Bolaki --

Pinning down the phantasmargorical: discourse of pain and the rupture of post-humanism in Evelyne Accad's The wounded breast and Audre Lorde's The cancer journals / Therí Alyce Pickens --

Submissive and non-compliant: the paradox of Gary Fisher / Robert McRuer --

Sexual, ethnic, disabled, and national identities in the "borderlands" of Latino/ a America and African America / Ned Mitchell --

"Could this happen to you?": stigma in representations of the down low / Chris Bell --

"The illest": disability as metaphor in Hip Hop music / Moya Bailey --

Both sides of the two-sided coin: rehabilitation of disabled African American soldiers / Carlos Clarke Drazen.