No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement - Paperback

by Joseph P. Shapiro (Author)

"A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights."--The Washington Post

"The primer for a revolution."--The Chicago Tribune

"Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement--the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is society's myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult."--from the Introduction

Front Jacket

People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.

Author Biography

Joseph P. Shapiro is an award-winning journalist who is an NPR news investigations correspondent. Before joining NPR, he spent 19 years at U.S. News & World Report as a senior writer on social policy, and served as the magazine's Rome bureau chief, White House correspondent, and congressional reporter. For his investigative work, Shapiro received a duPont Award, a George Foster Peabody Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award. He is the author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement.