Full Description
A collection of eight essays by scholars who have published extensively within the disability studies literature, and who have helped build the field to its current state. Includes contributions from Robert Bogdan, Doug Biklen, Susan Schweik, and more.
Contents
Foreword: Scope of the books and focus areas; Wappett & Arndt Essay: Introducing Foundational Scholars and their role in the development of DS; Wappett & Arndt 1. Handicapism in America with update from the authors; Robert Bogdan & Doug Biklen 2. Disability and the pain of minority identity; Tobin Siebers 3. Historicizing dis/ability and race: Containing difference and disability; David Connor & Beth Ferri 4. Lost and found in space: The geographical imagination and disability; Brendan Gleeson 5. Musical becoming: Intellectual disability and the transformative power of music; Licia Carlson 6. Lomax's matrix: Disability, solidarity, and the black power of 504; Susan Schweik 7. Toward a post-colonial neurology: Autism, Tito Mukhopadhyay and a new geo-politics of the body; Ralph Savarese 8. (Im)material citizens: Cognitive disability, race, and the politics of citizenship; Nirmala Ervelles
