{"product_id":"disability-pride-dispatches-from-a-post-ada-world-9780807013335","title":"Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ben Mattlin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Disability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDisability Pride\u003c\/i\u003e, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals, ideas, and events in engaging, fast-paced prose. He traces the generation that came of age after the ADA reshaped America, and how it is influencing the future. He documents how autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement upended views of those whose brains work differently. He lifts the veil on a thriving disability culture--from social media to high fashion, Hollywood to Broadway--showing how the politics of beauty for those with marginalized body types and facial features is sparking widespread change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe also explores the movement's shortcomings, particularly the erasure of nonwhite and LGBTQIA+ people that helped give rise to Disability Justice. He delves into systemic ableism in health care, the right-to-die movement, institutionalization, and the scourge of subminimum-wage labor that some call legalized slavery. And he finds glimmers of hope in how disabled people never give up their fight for parity and fair play. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeautifully written, without anger or pity, \u003ci\u003eDisability Pride\u003c\/i\u003e is a revealing account of an often misunderstood movement and identity, an inclusive reexamination of society's treatment of those it deems \u003ci\u003edifferent\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45114045759639,"sku":"9780807013335","price":1540.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807013335.webp?v=1768546293","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/disability-pride-dispatches-from-a-post-ada-world-9780807013335","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}