Holding up the sky together
Subtitle: exploring the national narrative about people with intellectual disabilities
By: Ron Bishop ; with Sadie Pennington and Morgan Weiss
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780761870029
Subjects: People with mental disabilities
Description: Holding Up the Sky Together is admittedly a hybrid: part memoir, part academic analysis - a professor with more than 30 published articles and four books, all of which revolve around media analysis, looks inward. But our fervent hope is to inject a bit more realism into the national dialogue about intellectual disabilities. We are grateful for increased awareness and tolerance, for Special Olympics, and for shows like Born This Way. But there is so much more to be done.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A day in the life; title: The saddest I've ever been; title: "Making" disabilities; title: The legend of "Scooter Boy"; title: Catch the wind; title: Packaged for public consumption; title: By any other name; title: The homecoming court; title: Other voices; title: Other voices, continued; title: Those who demand attention.