These ideologies of disability have helped define whole populations as disabled through claims of intellectual and physical inferiority, as can be seen in racist stereotypes that posit black people as physically robust but intellectually inferior to white people, indigenous communities as in need of management and prone to disease, and upper-class white women as too delicate for rigorous intellectual or physical work. The legacies of such histories are far from buried, as can be seen in the work of scholars such as Nirmala Erevelles, who has shown that in the United States children of color
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