No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
Joseph P. Shapiro
(Author)
Description
"A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights."--The Washington Post"The primer for a revolution."--The Chicago Tribune
"Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement--the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is society's myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult."--from the Introduction
Product Details
Price
$18.00
$16.74
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Publish Date
October 25, 1994
Pages
400
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.0 X 1.2 inches | 0.85 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780812924121
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About the Author
Joseph P. Shapiro is an award-winning journalist who is an NPR news investigations correspondent. Before joining NPR, he spent 19 years at U.S. News & World Report as a senior writer on social policy, and served as the magazine's Rome bureau chief, White House correspondent, and congressional reporter. For his investigative work, Shapiro received a duPont Award, a George Foster Peabody Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award. He is the author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement.
