From the periphery : real-life stories of disability /

From the periphery : real-life stories of disability /

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Author / Creator:Justesen, Pia, author.
Imprint:Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2020]
Description:xx, 276 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
Subject:
People with disabilities -- Case studies.
Discrimination against people with disabilities -- Case studies.
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
People with disabilities.
Case studies.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11963636
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ISBN:9781641601580
1641601582
9781641601597
1641601590
9781641601610
1641601612
9781641601603
1641601604
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"From the Periphery consists of more than thirty first-person narratives by activists and everyday people who describe what it's like to be treated differently by society because of their disabilities. Their stories are raw and painful but also surprisingly funny and deeply moving--describing anger, independence, bigotry, solidarity, and love, in the family, at school, and in the workplace. Inspired by the oral historians Studs Terkel and Svetlana Alexievich, From the Periphery will become a classic oral history collection that increases the understanding of the lived experiences of people with disabilities, their responses to oppression, and the strategies they use to fight for empowerment. "--
Other form:Online version: Justesen, Pia. From the periphery. Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2020] 9781641601597
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Prologue
  • 1. I Got Angry
  • I Felt This Rage
  • I Just Never Could Get Angry Enough
  • The Best Way to Cope Is by Being Angry
  • I'm Asked to Fight All the Time
  • 2. What I Mean When I Talk About Disability
  • We Are Less
  • An Aspect of Human Variation
  • 3. No One Sees Me
  • You're Literally Not Seen
  • I Feel the Discrimination Like the Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts
  • I Felt Like Deaf People Were Invisible
  • 4. Embracing Disability
  • I Know People Now Who See Me
  • A Part of the World That We Don't Talk About
  • A Liberation to Become Truly Blind
  • Disability as a Transforming Experience
  • 5. Alone at School
  • You're Still a Person with a Disability at the End of the Day
  • You Stupid Nigger Chink. Can I Catch What You Have?
  • Don't Let Anybody Sit Alone at Lunch!
  • You Know Absolutely Nothing About Me
  • 6. To Be Loved
  • Shutting People Out Is What I've Done
  • Nobody Wants Me
  • To Consider Me, Even Though I Couldn't See
  • I Felt for a Very Long Time 1 Was a Monster
  • 7. There's So Much Dignity in Work
  • Society Cannot Get Over the Fact That I Have a Disability!
  • I Don't Believe in Giving Up
  • Somebody's Gonna Take One Look at My White Cane: Anonymous Woman
  • I Just Want Justice
  • 8. Out in Public
  • I Wouldn't Tell Anyone
  • It's Almost Like I'm Guilty Until Proven Innocent
  • You Don't Have Dwarf Phobia. You're Just a Bigot!
  • 9. Independence
  • Just Like a Person
  • I Want to Spread My Wings Too
  • But We Do Not Like Pity!
  • 10. I Am Not Inspiring
  • I'm Going to Give Them a Show
  • I'm Just a Regular Person Doing Regular Things
  • His Existence Is Not Inspirational
  • 11. If Nobody Thinks I'm Worthy, Maybe I'm Not
  • You're Not Important Enough
  • I'm Free from That Now
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
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