Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Disability and History
Today in class we discussed disability studies, in the presentation there was a quote by Doug Baynton concerning disability and history's perception of it. I found this very interesting, when I began to think about it I could not recall learning about very many people who were disabled in history classes I had taken. Could this also have something to do with the discussion concerning visual disabilities as opposed to "internal" or non-visual disabilities? Who are some well known people throughout history who have had to deal with a disability of some sort?
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President Franklin Roosevelt had a visible physical disability. I believe his disability was mostly kept a secret. His appearance's on TV were usually of him sitting down.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good example Dave. A lot of historians, and disability scholars discuss the reasoning behind his decision to hide his disability because of the belief that America would not elect a president in a wheelchair. Any thoughts on that? Also-for some more food for thought, think about the idea that he was able to hide his disability. In this day and age-if a president, or any other politician who held a major spotlight in the media who was confined to a wheelchair,
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, the rest of my comment was cut off!
ReplyDeleteTo finish my last sentence, I am curious as if it might be possible to hide such a visible disability in this day and age..any thoughts?