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...disability is often elusive and changing. Not only do people with disabilities have a history, but the concept of disability has a history as well.

— Kim E. Nielsen A Disability History of the United States (2012)

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This book will make clear that people with disabilities have lived and continue to live with disproportionately higher rates of poverty because of specific social structures, ideologies, and practices that hinder their social advancement.

A Disability History of the United States (2012)

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