This article considers the cultural meanings of Civil War injury, particularly amputation, with regard to race. Putting elements of print and visual culture in conversation with the material history of prostheses, the article explores competing understandings of war-acquired disability as a unifying category that could cross the color line or, alternatively, as a site of (white) racial distinction. While a number of depictions of "Empty Sleeves" in the Northern press in the early years following the war depicted black veterans' battle injuries as proof of their fitness for citizenship, representations of prosthetic limbs tended to tie rehabilitation to whiteness and to exclude blackness from the imagined national future. Exploring representations of Civil War injury and prosthetic reconstruction thus nuances accounts of the intersection of disability and race in the nineteenth century, revealing a form of disability inclusion that produced new elements of subjection and exclusion.

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“形式与色彩的和谐”：美国内战中的种族与假肢

本文考虑了内战伤害（尤其是截肢）在种族方面的文化意义。文章将印刷和视觉文化元素与假肢的物质历史进行对话，探讨了对战争获得性残疾作为一个统一类别的不同理解，该类别可能跨越种族界限，或者作为（白人）种族区别的场所。虽然战后早期北方媒体对“空袖子”的一些描述将黑人退伍军人的战斗伤害描述为他们适合公民身份的证明，但假肢的表现倾向于将康复与白人联系起来，并将黑人排除在外。想象中的国家未来。