5 Top disability studies books like Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell by Marta Russell

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Similar categories in Erving Goffman's Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• philosophy
• nonfiction
• history
• essays

"Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to the significance of symptoms such as hearing voices, losing temporal…"

-Erving Goffman, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

Similar categories in Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• economics

"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Similar categories in Vladimir Lenin's The State and Revolution book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• history
• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• economics

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

Similar categories in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• history
• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• social justice

"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Similar categories in Nayyirah Waheed's Salt book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• nonfiction

"i like myself. when i am myself."

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

"poetry. is the fire leaving my body."

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

"healing begins the moment you want it to"

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

"she was a beautiful place to bare my legs."

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

Similar categories in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

Similar categories in Friedrich Engels's Socialism: Utopian and Scientific book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• history
• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• economics

"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• disability

"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Similar categories in Emily Ladau's Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• history
• nonfiction
• social justice
• disability studies
• disability

Similar categories in Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• history
• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• social justice

"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• disability
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• disability studies

"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Similar categories in Dean Spade's Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• social justice

"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

Similar categories in Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Below book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• disability
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• disability studies

"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

Similar categories in Molly Smith's Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• politics
• social justice
• history
• nonfiction

"A sex worker who is living precariously or in poverty, who is at risk of criminalization or police violence, or who is being exploited by a manager or lacks negotiating power is not likely to be part…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

"Sex workers are the original feminists. Often seen as merely subject to others' whims, in fact, sex workers have shaped and contributed to social movements across the world. In medieval Europe, broth…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Similar categories in Eli Clare's Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• disability
• theory
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• disability studies

"But in today’s world, being seen as intellectually, cognitively, or developmentally disabled is dangerous because intelligence and verbal communication are entrenched markers of personhood."

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

"Simply put, the DSM is a highly constructed projection placed on top of particular body-mind experiences in order to label, organize, and make meanings of them from within a specific worldview."

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

"Simply put, diagnosis wields immense power. It can provide us access to vital medical technology or shame us, reveal a path toward less pain or get us locked up. It opens doors and slams them shut."

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

"Our body-minds tumble, shift, ease their way through space and time, never static. Gender transition in its many forms is simply another kind of motion. I lived in a body-mind assigned female at birt…"

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Similar categories in Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• history
• disability
• theory
• politics
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• economics
• disability studies

Similar categories in Beth Linker's Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America book and Marta Russell's Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

• history
• nonfiction