Description
Title: From the Periphery
Author: Pia Justesen
ISBN: 9781641601580
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher : From the Periphery consists of nearly forty first-person narratives from activists and everyday people who describe what it’s like to be treated differently by society because of their disabilities. Their stories are raw and painful but also surprisingly funny and deeply moving–describing anger, independence, bigotry, solidarity, and love, in the family, at school, and in the by the oral historians Studs Terkel and Svetlana Alexievich, From the Periphery will become a classic oral history collection that increases the understanding of the lived experiences of people with disabilities, their responses to oppression, and the strategies they use to fight for empowerment.
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