Book cover for Disability Worlds, featuring a photo of Samantha Myers, a young white woman with short light brown hair, sitting in her wheelchair on a New York City street in front of a large graffiti of brightly-colored large wings painted on dark brown wood. Her arms are raised to match the shape of the wings, as if she is about to fly. She wears a dark red face mask over her mouth and nose. The lower third of the cover has a bright pink background with the title Disability Worlds in white serif type. Underneath the title, in the same white serif type but a smaller size are the names of the authors, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, against a lighter pink background.
Disability Worlds, Duke University Press.
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In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. They situate their disabled children’s lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in larger struggles for recognition and rights. Disability consciousness, they show, emerges in everyday politics, practices, and frictions. Chapters consider dilemmas of genetic testing and neuroscientific research, reimagining kinship and community, the challenges of “special education,” and the perils of transitioning from high school. They also highlight the vitality of neurodiversity activism, disability arts, politics, and public culture. Disability Worlds reflects the authors’ anthropological commitments to recognizing the significance of this fundamental form of human difference. Ginsburg and Rapp’s conversations with diverse New Yorkers reveal the bureaucratic constraints and paradoxes established in response to the disability rights movement, as well as the remarkable creativity of disabled people and their allies who are opening pathways into both disability justice and disability futures.