Double Burden
This term describes how people of color with disabilities face compounded disadvantage due to the overlapping effects of racism and ableism.
What is the double burden?
A black, disabled woman, is the founder and CEO of the Keri Gray Group, a consulting group.
Who is Keri Gray?
Social workers are taught to view clients through this lens that recognizes overlapping forms of oppression.
What is an intersectional lens?
According to the social model, this term refers to the functional or biological limitation within an individual.
What is impairment?
This type of animal is most commonly trained to assist people who are blind or have low vision.
What is a guide dog?
According to Blick et al. (2015), individuals who are both racial/ethnic minorities and have disabilities experience higher rates of this chronic condition, which often leads to higher rates of amputation.
What is diabetes?
Those who live below the poverty line are primarily this gender.
Who are women?
Movements should unite across identities through this kind of collective action.
What is a coalition?
Michael Oliver states that disability is “wholly and exclusively” this:
What is social?
This international sports event was created for athletes with disabilities and takes place right after the Olympics.
What are the Paralympics?
People of color with disabilities often face inequities across multiple domains—including income, education, and housing—which are collectively known by this public health term.
What are social determinants of health?
Facing a triple burden of the inequalities in race, gender, and disabilities, this group of people is most affected by “triple jeopardy.”
Who are black women with disabilities?
Social workers must advocate for policies that promote inclusion, equity, and this key social work value.
What is social justice?
The oppression disabled people experience is often attributed to this economic system and its demands for increased productivity.
What is capitalism?
This physicist and author of A Brief History of Time used a wheelchair and computerized speech device.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
Blick et al. emphasize that without identifying disability within race-based initiatives like Healthy People 2020, policymakers unintentionally reproduce this kind of inequality.
What is systemic exclusion or policy blindness?
The study by Moodley and Graham (2015) emphasized that disability compounds this due to barriers in education and employment.
What is poverty?
This form of oppression targets people with physical or mental impairments.
What is ableism?
This theory, rejected by the social model, views disability as an individual misfortune or a problem to be fixed through medicine.
What is the “personal tragedy” theory of disability?
This color is used to represent disability awareness (Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month).
What is Orange?
The authors emphasize that social workers must address both ableism and racism simultaneously by practicing this approach, which recognizes how multiple systems of oppression intersect.
What is an intersectionality or culturally responsive approach?
This portion of the black community in the USA has some type of disability.
What is ¼ ?
The unearned benefits some people receive simply because of their social identity.
What is privilege?
The group that, in 1976, declared that “it is society which disables physically impaired people.”
What is the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS)?
These colors make up the Disability Pride Flag.
What are Red, Gold, White, Blue, & Green?