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Christopher M. Bell was a disability studies scholar working in the area of HIV/AIDS, race and ethnicity. He was the former president of the Society for Disability Studies and contributed to national discussions about race, ethnicity and disability studies. His posthumously published anthology, Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions, grew from his early critique of disability studies as a "white discipline" that ignored the racial dimensions of studying disability. His 2006 essay, "Introducing White Disability Studies: A Modest Proposal", was published in the second edition of the Disability Studies Reader and established him as a notable disability studies scholar.
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