The Right to Live in This World: The Long Struggle for Disability Equality in America

A landmark history of disability rights in America—and the two-century struggle to claim a place in the nation disabled Americans helped build—from renowned disability rights advocate and scholar Ari Ne’eman.

For generations, disabled Americans were segregated, institutionalized, sterilized, excluded from schools and workplaces, and denied the most basic freedoms of citizenship. Yet amidst this injustice, they succeeded in building a uniquely transformative and little understood civil rights...