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SIDESHOW: IMAGES OF DISABILITY, SOCIOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH HISTORY
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BOGDAN, ROBERT. 2010. “SIDESHOW: IMAGES OF DISABILITY, SOCIOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH HISTORY”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/sideshow-images-of-disability-sociological.

Abstract

"Freakshows," the formally organized exhibition of people with real and alleged physical, mental, or behavioral differences for entertainment and profit, was once an accepted, nationally popular, and lucrative practice. They have almost disappeared and are seen by most as crude, rude and exploitive; what one disability activist called "the pornography of...

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Subject Area(s):
Disabilities
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate

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