Suggested Readings for Seminar on Disability Rights/Culture
* Excerpts from Joseph P. Shapiro, No Pity. (Random House, Inc., NY), 1993. Chapter 1 ("Tiny Tims, Supercrips and the End of Pity"), Chapter 2 ("From Charity to Independent Living") & Chapter 3 (The Deaf Celebration of Separate Culture"). See also "Epilogue: How the Disability Rights Movement is Changing America."
* Excerpts from "What Happened to You?: Writing by Disabled Women." (Lois Keith, ed., The New Press, NY 1996). Nasa Begum, "Snow White"; Jennifer Hoskins, "For Those Not Yet Angry"; Suna Polio, "Being Sam's Mum"; Gohar Kordi, "I Was Touched."
* Solomon, Andrew, "Defiantly Deaf," N.Y. Times Magazine, Aug. 28, 1994.
* Excerpts from Martha Minow, Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion and American Law, (Cornell Univ. Press 1990.) See "Introduction: Making A Difference," and "Part I: The Dilemma of Difference."
* Mouth Magazine (Voice of the Disability Nation). See e.g., "Holiday Activities to Help the Handicapped," Vol. IX, No. 4 (Nov.-Dec. 1998); "The Fire that Will Not Go Out," Vol. IX, No. 2 (July-Aug. 1998); "It Comes for Each of Us: the Moment of Truth," Vol. X, No. 2 (July-Aug. 1999). Free Hand Press.
* Drimmer, "Cripples, Overcomers and Civil Rights: Tracing the Evolution of Federal Legislation and Social Policy for People with Disabilities," 40 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 1341 (1993).
* Excerpts from Simi Linton, Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity. (New York Univ. Press, 1998). See, "Chapter 1: Reclamation," "Chapter 2: Reassigning Meaning," and "Chapter 3: Divided Society."
* Excerpt from Judy Scales-Trent, "Commonalities: On Being Black & White, Different and the Same," 2 Yale J. L. & Feminism 305, 322-324 (1990).
* Paul Longmore, "Screening Stereotypes: Images of Disabled People," J. Social Policy (Summer 1985).
* Harlan Hahn, "Antidiscrimination Laws and Social Research on Disability: The Minority Group Perspective," Behavioral Sciences and the Law, Vol. 14, 41-59 (1996).
* "Jerry's Kids: It's a Pity but it Works," Los Angeles Times, Part-A; Metro Desk, Sept. 4, 1991.
* Bob Bureau, "Understanding Abilities and Disabilities-Toward Interdependency," in Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook," (ed. Adams, Bell & Griffin, Routledge, NY 1997) at Appendix 10F.
* Excerpts from Lennard Davis, Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body, (Verso/New Left Books, NY, 1995). See "Introduction: Disability, the Missing Term in the Race, Class, Gender Triad," and "Constructing Normalcy."
* Excerpts from Ordinary Moments: The Disabled Experience, (ed. Brightman, Human Policy Press, NY 1985).
* Board of Education v. Rowley, 458 U.S. 176 (1982).
* Pushkin v. Regents of the Univ. of Colorado, 658 F.2d 1376 (10th Cir. 1981).
* Sutton v. United Airlines, 119 S.Ct. 2139 (1999).
* Olmstead v. L.C., 119 S.Ct. 2176 (1999).
Videotapes
* "Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back." A Brace Yourselves Production, Marquette, MI (1996).
* "When Billy Broke His Head (Disability, Civil Rights, Intelligent Life After Brain Damage)," Fanlight Productions, Boston, MA (1994).
* "Positive Images: Portraits of Women With Disabilities," Women Make Movies, NY, NY 1989 (to rent call 212-925-0606).