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x ACK NOWLEDGMENT S disability studies advisory board, and in particular to Lawrence Cohen, Catherine Cole, Linda Krieger, Celeste Langan, Ray Lifchez, Jennifer Miller, Paul Rabinow, Steve Rosenbaum, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes. I have benefited greatly from work with many people alert to disability issues on the Berkeley campus; special thanks to the librarians and oral historians at the Bancroft Library’s Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project. I would like to thank all of the scholars who participated in the Ed Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at U.C. Berkeley, especially the ones who commented in detail on parts of this book. I am also grateful to all of the participants in the Greater Bay Area Disability Studies Consortium, including Julia Epstein, Ruth Frankenberg and Mary Felstiner. My students in the disability studies courses I’ve taught over the years have helped enormously with the shaping and refining of this book. To the colleagues in disability studies whom I met first as my graduate students I am especially grateful. Special thanks to Dominika Bednarska, Gretchen Case, Rebekah Edwards, Michele Friedner, Hillary Gravendyk Burrill, Kris Loutensock, Anna Mollow, Paul Murphy, and Ariel Osterweis Scott. Ellen Samuels inspired and challenged me in many ways. I am one of the many people who owe Christine Hong a great debt for her kindness and the keen intelligence of her conversation. Above all, I thank a group of U.C. Berkeley co-workers who created and sustained the structures within which I came to do this work. They have given me examples of engaged scholarship that have changed this book and changed my life. Fred Collignon’s influence will be obvious from the first page. Fred, Katherine Sherwood, Georgina Kleege, Devva Kasnitz, and Marsha Saxton: I can’t thank you enough. Natalie Abbott, Melissa Cottrell, Juno deMelo, Rosa Martinez, and Charles Legere gave me indispensable research help. I was privileged to have Mike Ervin’s assistance with research in Chicago. Thanks also to Judge Walter Cropper for taking time to talk with me about the 1974 Omaha case. Emily Teplin and Simon Stern did their best to help me understand American law and legal citation, and I am also grateful for help provided by Dean Rowan. All of us who work in disability studies know what a vibrant intellectual community we share in. I don’t have room to cite everyone who contributed to the making of this book, but here’s a beginning to the list of those I thank: Emily Abel, Ron Amundson, Michael Berube, Laurie Block, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Susan Burch, Brad Byrom, Lisa Cartwright, Eli ACK NOWLEDGMENT S xi Clare, Michael Davidson, Jim Ferris, Lakshmi Fjord, Brigham Fordham, Carol Gill, Dan Gillette, Terry Galloway, Sander Gilman, Joseph Grigely, Kim Hall, Laura Hershey, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Alison Kafer, Steven Kurzman, Dennis Lang, Riva Lehrer, Victoria Ann Lewis, Kristin Lindgren, Lynn Manning, Leroy Moore, Neil Marcus, Paul Steven Miller, Sagit Mor, Corbett O’Toole, Katherine Ott, Robert McRuer, David Mitchell, Stuart Murray, Ruth O’Brien, Martin Pernick, Penny Richards, William Roth, Harilynn Russo, Carrie Sandahl, David Serlin, Tom Shakespeare, Alice Sheppard, Russell Shuttleworth, Tobin Siebers, Sharon Snyder, Robin Stephens , Jean Stewart, Susan Squier. Thanks also to Rachel Adams, Jack Batterson , Bonnie Berry, Perry Duis, and Claire Sears for their scholarship and help. Without the work of Robert Burgdorf Jr. this book simply couldn’t exist. These friends, among others, have supported and influenced this project , and I thank them with love and admiration: Ayse Agis, David Alpaugh, Evan Alpaugh, Lucy Blackmer, Phil Bolda, Ramsay Bell Breslin, Mary Lou Breslin, Elizabeth Flora, David Gilbert, Ray Grott, Jim Grow, Jenny Kern, Ralf Hotchkiss, Bob Holtermann, Suzanne Ingley, Denise Sherer Jacobson, Neil Jacobson, Debbie Kaplan, Scott Leubking, Mark Limont, Daphne Muse, Kalima Rose, Anthony Tusler, Dianne Walker, and my friends on McGee. I will always be grateful to Chris Taaffe, who saw this book through the good, the bad, and the ugly. This work could not have been completed without the support provided by the University of California, U.C. Berkeley, and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. I am grateful to the National Institute for Disability Research and Rehabilitation for its support of Berkeley’s postdoctoral program in disability studies, which greatly enriched my understanding of the issues at stake in this book. Thanks also to the librarians and archivists at the Library of Congress, the Columbia University Rare Book Library, the New York Public Library, the Municipal Archives of New York...

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