Research Guides: Disability Awareness Month: SCC Library Books, Periodicals, &amp; Movies

Books: Non-fiction

The Autistic Brain: thinking across the spectrum by Temple Grandin
Call Number: 616.8588 GRANDIN
ISBN: 9780547636450
Grandin states, "By cultivating the autistic mind on a brain-by-brain, strength-by-strength basis, we can re-conceive autistic teens and adults in jobs and internships not as charity but as valuable, even essential, contributors to society."
Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability by Sheila Black, Jennifer Bartlett, & Michael Northen (Editors)
Call Number: 811.608 BEAUTY 2011
This book of poetry is a deep exploration of contemporary verse and thought expressed through a disability perspective.
Blackness and Disability by Christopher M. Bell (Editor)
Call Number: 305.908 BLACKNE 2011
"The work of reading black and disabled bodies is not only recovery work, but work that requires a willingness to deconstruct the systems that would keep those bodies in separate spheres. This pivotal volume uncovers the misrepresentations of black disabled bodies and demonstrates how those bodies transform systems and culture."
Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity by Jeffrey A. Brune & Daniel J. Wilson (Editors)
Call Number: 305.908 DISABIL 2013
"Passing - an act usually associated with disguising race - also relates to disability. Whether a person classified as mentally ill struggles to suppress aberrant behavior to appear normal or a person intentionally takes on a disability identity to gain some advantage, passing is a pervasive and much-discussed phenomenon. Nevertheless, Disability and Passing is the first anthology to examine this issue."
A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
Call Number: 362.4097 NIELSEN 2012
"...the first book to place the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative ... [It] deftly illustrates how concepts of disability have deeply shaped the American experience."
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer
Call Number: 362.401 KAFER 2013
[Both Print & eBook available]

"... Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. ... This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more just world."
Inside Deaf Culture by Carol A. Padden &Tom L. Humphries
Publication Date: 2006
This book reveals historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today and relates how Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture.
In the Kingdom of the Sick by Laurie Edwards
Call Number: 362.196 EDWARDS 2013
Millions of Americans live with chronic illness, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all health care dollars, and untold pain and disability. Through research and patient narratives, this book explores patient rights, the role of social media in medical advocacy, the origins of our attitudes about chronic illness, and much more.
Mad at School by Margaret Price
Call Number: 616.89 PRICE 2010
This is the first book to use a disability-studies perspective to focus specifically on the ways that mental disabilities impact academic culture at institutions of higher education.
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
Call Number: 362.42 SACKS 1989
Seeing Voices begins with the history of deaf people in the United States ... and examines the amazing and beautiful visual language of the deaf -- Sign -- which ... [is] linguistically complete, rich, and as expressive as any spoken language."

Books: Fiction

Mapping Charlie by Jane Meyerding
Call Number: 813.54 MEYERDI 2010
A murder mystery written by an autistic woman with prosopagnosia, a neurological deficit that affects her ability to recognize people. Her main character, Kay, who also has autism and prosopagnosia, must find who murdered a young man whom she recently met.
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Call Number: 813.54 MOON 2013

Periodicals (newspapers, magazines, & journals)

Careers & the Disabled
"...established in 1986, is the nation's first and only career-guidance and recruitment magazine for people with disabilities who are at undergraduate, graduate, or professional levels." Current month freely available online.
Disability Studies Quarterly
An interdisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of disability studies
Mouth: The Voice of the Disability Nation
"...a bi-monthly magazine, usually only in print, but here's an online sample."
New Mobility (The Membership Publication of United Spinal Association)
"New Mobility is about exploring and enjoying life as a wheelchair user. With authentic voices and authoritative information, NM embodies the truth that living life with a mobility device can be rich and rewarding and fulfilling. As the member publication of United Spinal Association, the print edition of NM is opens in a new windowavailable for free as part of the organization’s mission to enhance the quality of life of people with spinal cord injuries and related disabilities."

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Vidoes

Intelligent Lives by Dan Habib
Call Number: SCC LIBRARY USE MOVIES 362 INTELLI 2018
"... stars three pioneering young American adults with intellectual disabilities ...who challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high school, college, and the workforce."
Temple Grandin : Autism Gave Her a Vision. She Gave it a Voice
ISBN: 0780661338
"An engaging portrait of an autistic young woman who became, through timely mentoring and sheer force of will, one of America's most remarkable success stories as a leader in the field of animal husbandry and the humane handling of cattle."

Kanopy streaming video via SPL:

Ask SCC Librarians about viewing Kanopy streaming videos from Spokane Public Library.

Here are just a few example films from this vast collection:

Defiant Lives: The Rise Of The Disability Rights Movement
"A triumphant film that traces the origins of the world-wide disability rights movement. It tells the stories of the individuals who bravely put their lives on the line to create a better world where everyone is valued and can participate."
Zoom In: Microaggresions and Disability
"An intimate portrait of five disabled people living in the Pacific Northwest. They discuss microaggressions and implicit bias against people with disabiltiies, developing disability pride and identity, and how bias affects them every day." A guide for teachers, coworkers, health care workers, and families and how they can become better allies to members of the largest minority group in the US.
Deaf Jam
".... story of deaf teen Aneta Brodski's bold journey into the spoken word slam scene."
You Can't Ask That: Breaking Down Stereotypes
"... this video series breaks down stereotypes and offers genuine insight into the lives of people who live with labels including: short statured, wheelchair users, etc." From the Australian Broadcasting Company