The Story of My Life
"When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan-is one of the great stories of human courage and dedication." --Goodreads
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Presently, disability justice and emotional/care work are buzzwords on many people's lips, and the disabled and sick are discovering new ways to build power within themselves and each other; at the same time, those powers remain at risk in this fragile political climate in which we find ourselves. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms." --Publisher
True Biz
"This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the headmistress, who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both at the same time." --Publisher
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
"Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local 'powhitetrash.'" --Publisher
Disability Visibility: First-person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden--but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers." --Publisher
From the Popular Reading Room
Fiction
Nonfiction
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Call Number: V1553 .H49 2020Publication Date: 2020-02-25
Disability Visibility: First-person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Call Number: HV1552.3 .D57 2020Publication Date: 2020-06-30
Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out by Call Number: PS508.P56 S73 1997Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Fantasy/Science Fiction
Graphic Novels
Disability in Law and Academia
Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights by Call Number: KF480 .B33 2003Publication Date: 2003-03-26
Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care by Call Number: HD7256.U5 O269 2005Publication Date: 2005-04-04
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Call Number: N8355 .K34 2021Publication Date: 2021-12-07
Decarcerating Disability: Deinsitutionalization and Prison Abolition by Call Number: Online OnlyPublication Date: 2020-05-19
Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies by Call Number: HQ76.25 .D48 2003Publication Date: 2003-02-25
Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology by Call Number: HM851 D57 2017Publication Date: 2017-06-22
Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education by Call Number: KF229.Z63 D54 2020Publication Date: 2020-07-06
Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health by Call Number: KF3823 .C76 2022Publication Date: 2022-08-25
Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights by Call Number: KF480 .D38 2015Publication Date: 2015-07-14
From Disability Theory to Practice: Essays in Honor of Jerome E. Bickenbach by Call Number: HV1568 .F755 2018Publication Date: 2018-08-15
Haben: The Deafblind Woman who Conquered Harvard by Call Number: KF373.G567 A3 2019Publication Date: 2019-08-06
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Call Number: E443 .B245 2021Publication Date: 2021-04-13
Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform by Call Number: HV1553 .P484 2019Publication Date: 2019-09-17
A Prescription for Dignity: Rethinking Criminal Justice and Mental Disability Law by Call Number: K640 .P49 2013Publication Date: 2013-07-26
Righting Educational Wrongs: Disability Studies in Law and Education by Call Number: KF4209.3.A75 S43 2009Publication Date: 2013-12-30
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, and Disability by Call Number: HV1568.2 .P83 2017Publication Date: 2017-11-03
