Title: On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1592136974
ISBN 13: 9781592136971
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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"On the Margins of Citizenship" provides a comprehensive, sociological history of the fight for civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities. Allison Carey, who has been active in disability advocacy and politics her entire life, draws upon a broad range of historical and legal documents as well as the literature of citizenship studies to develop a 'relational practice' approach to the issues of intellectual disability and civil rights. She examines how and why parents, self-advocates and professionals have fought for different visions of rights for this population throughout the twentieth century and how things have changed over that time. Carey addresses the segregation of people with intellectual disabilities in schools and institutions along with the controversies over forced sterilization, eugenics, marriage and procreation, and protection from the death penalty. She chronicles the rise of the parents' movement and the influence of the Kennedy family, as well as current debates that were generated by the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990. Presenting the shifting constitutional and legal restrictions for this marginalized group, Carey argues that policies tend to sustain an ambiguity that simultaneously promises rights yet also allows their retraction.

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Allison C. Carey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Shippensburg University.

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