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Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico by Julie Avril Minich (review)

Julie Avril Minich’s Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico is a necessary and refreshing intervention into disability studies and critical race and ethnicity studies. As one of the few monographs focused on disability and race, this book addresses how Chicana/o cultural producers, including Arturo Islas, Cherrı́e Moraga, Guillermo Arriaga, Ana Castillo, and Cecile Pineda, represent disability and the effects of the ideology of ability within their conceptualizations and critiques of political communities. These representations of disability within political community formations (rather than outside of or in opposition to them), Minich contends, “have the potential to reconfigure how we perceive the body politic and to transform what we imagine when we (to repurpose Benedict Anderson’s canonized phrase) imagine community” (3). From the start of the book, Minich makes clear that she is not interested in reifying the boundaries of the nation or in promoting the inherent value of citizenship. Instead, she leaves “open the question of whether this ‘new political principle’ might include a reformulated, accessible version of what we presently call citizenship, or whether the institution itself must be eradicated in order to create a more accessible means of guaranteeing human dignity for the whole of humanity” (19). For some readers, this early refusal to provide a firm answer may be frustrating, but what Minich reveals repeatedly throughout the text is how concepts such as nation, citizenship, and identity can be used in both liberatory and oppressive ways. Grounded in literary and film analysis with several extended and astute close readings, Accessible Citizenships repeatedly returns to the realities of its major concepts—race, disability, nation, and