Readings

UNIT I
DEFINING DISABILITY

Session 1:	Course overview	March 30
	No assigned readings

Session 2:	What is "disability?" What do I say? What is Disability Studies? - Dennis Lang	April 1
	VIDEO: Talk and Able to Laugh
	No Pity Introduction
	Linton--Chapters 1, 2; Chapter 6
	Nelson, "When Stereotypes Tell the Story"
	"Myths and Facts about People with Disabilities"
	Shapiro, "Return of the Sob Sisters"
	Small Group Discussions

Session 3:	Moral, Medical, Social Models of Disability	April 6
	No Pity Chapter 1
	Barnes & Mercer. "Disability: A Choice of Models and Disabling Societies"
	Hockenberry, "Fear of Bees" from Moving Violations
	Artifacts Description and Demonstration

Session 4:	Models Continued, Stigma - Dennis Lang	April 8
	No Pity Chapters 2,3
	Goffman, "Stigma and Social Identity"
	Clare, "The Mountain"
	Small Group Discussions

UNIT II
“DISABILITY” AS PORTRAYED IN THE HISTORY BOOKS

Session 5:	Early History	April 13
	No Pity Chapters 4, 5
	Shapiro, A., "Early Attitudes and Their Legacies" (pgs: 145 - 207)
	Bayton, "Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History"
	(Optional) - Roy Porter, "Madness and Psychiatry Talking: A Historical Dialogue"

Session 6:	Eugenics - Joanne Woiak, Ph.D.	April 15
	Reilly, Philip, "Involuntary Sterilization in the US: The Surgical Solution"
	Stubblefield, "Beyond the Pale: Tainted Whiteness, Cognitive Disability, and Eugenics"
	Bottger, Joerg, "Review of The Origins of Nazi Genocide"
	(Optional) Mostert, "Useless Eaters"

Session 7:	Develpment of Disability Rights Movement	April 20
	Development of Civil Rights/ADA
	No Pity Chapters 6, 7
	Francis & Silvers, "Achieving the Right to Live in the World"
	Parry, Handbook on Disability Discrimination Law, pgs. 1-34 OPTIONAL
	Winter, Jerry AllanThe Development of the Disability Rights Movement as a Social Problem Solver Disability Studies Quarterly Winter 2003 Vol 23, No. 1 33-61
	Small Group discussions

Session 8:	Disability Advocacy	April 22
	VIDEO: When Billy Broke His Head
	Blumberg, "Public Stripping"
	Johnson, "The Test of Wills Jerry Lewis, Jerry's Orphans and the Telethon"
	Wade, "Disability Culture Rap"
	Longmore, "Why I Burned My Book"
	Lukin, Joshua "Black Disability Studies"

UNIT III
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN and a CITIZEN?

Session 9:	Who Qualifies for Rights?	April 27
	Kittay, "When Caring is Just and Justice is Caring"
	Failer, "The Civil Commitment of Joyce Brown" (pgs. 11-28)
	Small Group Discussions
	*Artifact Essay #1 Due*

Session 10:	Not Dead Yet/Physician Assisted Suicide	April 29
	Brockley. "Martyred Mothers and Merciful Fathers"
	Not Dead Yet http://www.notdeadyet.org/docs/about.html
	Some Favor Slower Right to Die for Paralyzed

Session 11:	Nothing About Us Without Us	May 4
	VIDEO: Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories
	Tucker, "Deaf Culture, Cochlear Implants, and Elective Disability"
	Montgomery, "Critic of the Dawn," Ragged Edge Online, March 2001
	French, "When the Wind Gets in my Way" - pp. 21-27
	Small Group Discussions

UNIT IV
CULTURAL PORTRAYALS OF DISABILITY

Session 12:	Disability and the Arts - Julie Myers	May 6
	No Pity Chaper 10, Epilogue and Postscript
	Serlin, David, "Crippling Masculinity, Queerness and Disability in US Military Culture 1800-1945".
	Thomson, "The FDR Memorial"
	Thomson, "Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction"

Session 13:	Environmental Access/Universal Design - Brian Dudgeon	May 11
	The Chronicle Review: Universal design
	New York Times article, When Accessibility Isn't Hospitality
	Mutua, "The Semiotics of Accessibility & the Cultural Construction of Disability"

Session 14:	African American Culture and Deafness - Heather Clark	May 13
	No Pity Chapters 8, 9
	Clark, "Signing and Signifyin': Negotiating Deaf and African American Identities";
	Dolnick, "Deafness as culture"; The Atlantic; Sep 1993
	Small Group Discussions

Session 15:	Bio-ethics and Human Genome Project	May 18
	Asch, "Disability, Bioethics, and Human Rights"
	Andrews & Hibbert, "Courts and Wrongful Birth: Can Disability Itself be Viewed as a Legal Wrong?"
	Weil, "A Wrongful Birth?" OPTIONAL
	*Artifact Essay #2 Due*

Session 16:	Class time to work on Architectural Projects	May 20

Session 17:	Disability in non-Western Cultures - Jose Alaniz	May 25
	Charlton, "Culture(s) and Belief Systems"
	UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Session 18:	Reflections	May 27
	VIDEO: Vital Signs
	Case Studies
	Thomson, "Staring Back"
	Sierra-Zarella, "Adapting and 'Passing'"
	Small Group Discussions

Session 19:	Poster Presentations - Allen South	June 1

Session 20:	Final Artifact Presentations	June 3
	Where We Go From Here
	Artifact Essay #3 Due

Finals Week: Paper Due June 9