Disability Rights Resource Guide

Disability Advocacy: Disability community    Eugenics apologies   Forced sterilization

Disability Studies: Scholarly organizations    Disability history    Genetics and reproduction

Disability Advocacy

Disability Community

Seattle and King County

Alliance of People with disAbilities (Centers for Independent Living) 

Disability Rights Washington (advocacy services)

Arc of King County (serving people with developmental disabilities)

Washington

People First of Washington (self-advocacy)

Self Advocates in Leadership (statewide coalition of people with developmental disabilities)

Washington State Developmental Disabilities Council (advocacy and policy planning) 

Governor's Committee on Disability Issues and Employment (statewide advocacy) 

Eugenics Apologies

Berger, Knute. "Breed and Weed." The Seattle Weekly, April 16, 2003.

Berger, Knute. "It's Never Too Late to Say You're Sorry." Crosscut Seattle, April 13, 2007.

"Oregonians Get Apology for Sterilizations," Inclusion Daily Express, 2002.

Platt, Tony. "Engaging the Past: Charles M. Goethe, American Eugenics, and Sacramento State University." Social Justice 32 (2005): 17-33.

Reynolds, Dave. "The Eugenics Apologies: How a Pair of Disability Rights Advocates Scored the First Apology for Eugenics, and What They Have Planned Next." Ragged Edge Online, Nov/Dec 2003.

Stern, Alexandra. "Eugenics and Historical Memory in America." History Compass 2 (2005): 1-11.

Wahlsten, Douglas. "Leilani Muir versus the Philosopher King: Eugenics on Trial in Alberta." Genetica 99 (1997): 185-198.

Zitner, Aaron, "Davis' Apology Sheds No Light on Sterilization." Los Angeles Times, March 16, 2003, A12.

Forced Sterilization

Disability Studies

Scholarly Organizations

Society for Disability Studies (publishes Disability Studies Quarterly)

Disability History Association (publishes a newletter)

Disability Studies: Information and Resources (comprehensive online compilation)

Disability Archive UK (University of Leeds)

Disability History Online

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Disability History Museum (Center for Disability and Public History)

Disability Social History Project (community history project, 2003)

Museum of disABILITY History (Buffalo, NY)

Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement (University of California, Berkeley)

The Disability Rights Movement (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)

Genetics, Reproduction, and Disability Rights

Brantlinger, Ellen. Sterilization of People with Mental Disabilities: Issues, Perspectives, and Cases. Connecticut: Auburn House, 1995.

Buchanan, Alan, et al., eds. From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008.

The DNA Exhange. Genetic counsellors’ blog.

DNA: Pandora’s Box. PBS. Windfall Films Production for Thirteen/WNET New York in association with Channel Four, 2003.

Duster, Troy. Backdoor to Eugenics. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Field, Martha and Valerie Sanchez. Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Kerr, Anne and Tom Shakespeare. Genetic Politics: From Eugenics to Genome. Cheltenham, England: New Clarion Press, 2002.

Kitcher, Philip. The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities. New York: Touchstone, 1996.

Parens, Erik and Adrienne Asch, eds. Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000.

Paul, Diane. The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.

Rembis, Michael. "(Re)defining Disability in the 'Genetic Age': Behavioral Genetics, 'New' Eugenics, and the Future of Impairment." Disability and Society 24 (2009): 585-597.