By the Numbers
History
Ideology
Facts and Figures
Double Jeopardy
100
Effecting more than soldiers, this number of women are diagnosed with PTSD symptoms, often as the result of rape, sexual assault, domestic abuse, and violence.
What is 1 of 9?
100
Historically, one of the few viable ways for people with disabilities to earn a living.
What are freak shows?
100
In the U.S., until this decade, people with disabilities were not considered a legal minority group.
What is the 1970s (p. 470)?
100
The world’s largest minority.
What is "people with disabilities (p.461)"?
100
These qualities are attributed to those who are dependent.
A: What are laziness, lack of initiative, burden on society, deserving of sympathy but not empathy?
200
According to Lennard J. Davis, the percentage of Americans with disabilities.
What is 16 percent?
200
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 forbade all federal and state agencies from discrimination against persons with disabilities in this area.
What is employment?
200
The single most disabling social circumstance for people with disabilities.
What is poverty (p.484)?
200
The inclusion of ramps, easy access door openers, and wider hallways and doorways in buildings to allow access to all people is called this.
What is “Universal Architectural Design,” or UAD (p.464)?
200
Not just a paycheck, it’s a defining feature of American lives.
What is work?
300
The percentage of discrimination cases that are lost.
What is 90 to 98 percent?
300
More men have been pulled off the front lines because of psychiatric wounds than were killed in combat in these wars, according to Dave Grossman (p. 494).
A: What are WWI, WWII, and Korea?
300
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, DSM, eliminated Asperger’s syndrome, replacing it with a revised criterion for diagnosing autism spectrum disorders. People diagnosed with Asperger’s report losing this.
What is a sense of pride, support, and community in relationship to their Asperger’s diagnosis?
300
The world population of people with disabilities is growing because war, ethnic and sectarian violence, poverty, aging and this.
What is contamination of the environment (p. 464)?
300
According to Bell, “a defective race of human beings” (p. 475).
What are deaf people?
400
Soldiers trapped in continuous combat for 60-90 days were psychiatric casualties at this rate.
What is 98 percent?
400
The early 19th century movement that spurred policies to segregate and sterilize people considered to be hopeless unredeemable because of their disabilities.
What is eugenics (p. 462)?
400
According to Willie V. Bryan, “segregating disabilities into distinct disease groups” and “causing each disabling condition to stand alone and not be part of a larger whole” (p. 470) has this result.
A: What is “devastating to efforts of persons with disabilities to unite and demand their constitutional rights"?
400
Term the book used to raise consciousness that people who do not have disabilities may become disabled, by illness, the process of growing older, accidents, and war.
What is temporarily able-bodied (p. 461)?
400
They are raped twice as often.
Who are disabled women?
500
U.S. law defined a hate crime toward a person as the defendant intentionally selecting “a victim… because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability of any person” in this decade.
What is the 1990s?
500
The extreme rationalization of eugenics as the basis of the genocide of thousands of people with mental and physical disabilities.
What is WWII Germany’s genocide (p. 462)?
500
Bryan says this is the problem with nonoppressed people creating legislation, telethons, and other charitable efforts without input from people with disabilities (p. 471).
What is “regardless of how well-intended the motivation of a nonoppressed person there are some things he/she will either overlook or not understand with regard to the effects of being oppressed”?
500
Forty years ago, the movement that resulted with people with disabilities starting to realize that to be truly free, they must take and maintain control of their lives.
What is the Independent Living Movement (p. 472)?
500
A reason why “there is resistance to calling attacks against people with disabilities ‘hate’ crimes is because the general ideology toward persons with disabilities rules out this (p. 488).
A: What is hate as a viable emotion?
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