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Disability Theory
ground against prejudice, but when their identities are tied to disability,
The more we learn about disability, the more it will become apparent
Rather, the minority identities that disability accents are thought patho-
logical in their essence. Or one might say that the symbolic association
with disability disables these identities, fixing firmly their negative and in-
such, in matters of sex, gender, class, nationality, and race? Why does the
ity identities? In which other ways does disability inflect minority identity
which disability, sickness, and injury come to signify inferior human sta-
tus. The appearance of pathology, then, requires that we focus rigorous at-