Disability and Academic Exclusion - Voicing the Student Body

Disability and Academic Exclusion employs disability theory to reveal cultural limitations to minority incorporation in education, historically demonstrated by the diminished reinscriptions of iconic minority authenticity in the works of former slaves Sojourner Truth and Phillis Wheatley and the deaf-blind author Helen Keller.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One - Turn a Deaf Ear: The Impossibility of Participation
Chapter Two - Cast a Blind Eye: Phillis Wheatley, Helen Keller, and the Imperative of Exposure
Chapter Three - Bite Your Tongue: The Unspoken Place of Disability in the Academy
Conclusion

About the author

By E. R. Weatherup

Summary

Disability and Academic Exclusion employs disability theory to reveal cultural limitations to minority incorporation in education, historically demonstrated by the diminished reinscriptions of iconic minority authenticity in the works of former slaves Sojourner Truth and Phillis Wheatley and the deaf-blind author Helen Keller.

Product details

• Authors: E R Weatherup, E. R. Weatherup
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781498520010
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2001-0
• No. of pages: 124
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Disability: social aspects