I largely concur with Miles (or m99m) and add just one point. When I
started using the term disability studies I had in mind NOT Black Studies
and Women's Studies, but international studies. Being trained in political
science it was that term which came to mind. That is, people from various
disciplines focusing on disability and the experience of disability, but
not ignoring their discipline. Now disability studies does have some of
the perspectives of Black Studies, Women's Studies, and also cultural
studies. Here in Hawaii people describe my discipline as disability
studies and I do not object. It would be nice to have the sources (which
probably no longer exist) to trace the evolution of the term disability
studies and related terms......David
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David Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
Resident Scholar
Center on Disability Studies
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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It's not over until it's over....Yogi Berra
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