Book review: Ed Roberts: Father of Disability Rights

Steven E. Brown

Steven E. Brown

Co-Founder, Institute on Disability Culture

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disability culture, disability rights, Ed Roberts

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Author: Diana Pastora Carson; Drawings by Patrick Wm. Connally

Reviewer: Steven E. Brown, Ph.D.

Publisher: Indianapolis, IN: Dog Ear Publishing 2013

Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-4575-1952-9

Cost: $14.95, 30 pages

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Brown, S. E. (2006). Ed Roberts: Wheelchair genius (Honolulu, HI: Institute on Disability Culture, 2006).

Brown, S. E. (2003). Zona and Ed Roberts: Twentieth Century Pioneers. In Movie stars and sensuous scars: Essays on the journey from disability shame to disability pride. New York: iUniverse, pp. 134-57.

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Feb 23, 2015

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Vol. 11 No. 2

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Author Biography

Steven E. Brown, Co-Founder, Institute on Disability Culture

Steven E. Brown, Professor of disability studies at the University of Hawai‘i is also the co-founder of the Institute on Disability Culture (http://web.mac.com/disculture/), a poet, essayist, and speaker. A collection of essays, Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars: Essays on the Journey from Disability Shame to Disability Pride is available at many online bookstores. He may be contacted at: sebrown@hawaii.edu.

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