SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: National Education Association, Intellectual Disability, The Roots
24 May 2016
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Module 11, part i: representations of persons with disabilities. In part i of module 11, we explore the media"s representation of persons with disabilities. In teaching for diversity and social justice, pat griffin, madeleine l. peters, and robin m. smith define ableism as a pervasive system of discrimination and exclusion of people with disabilities. Like racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression ableism operates on individual, institutional, and cultural levels to privilege temporarily able-bodied people and disadvantage people with disabilities. The systemic nature of this form of oppression is evidenced by patterns of treatment that discriminate against people with disabilities in such institutions as health care, education, housing, and employment. This phenomenon has been described by a variety of other terms, including handicapism, disability discrimination, physicalism, and mentalism. We prefer the term ableism to define the oppression of people with disabilities as a social justice issue. (335)
