At the same time the white South, by reason of its sudden conversion from the slavery ideal, by so much the more became set and strengthened in its racial prejudice, and crystallized it into harsh law and harsher custom; while the marvelous pushing forward of the poor white daily threatened to take even bread and butter from the mouths of the heavily handicapped sons of the freedmen.
Slide 15 The language of disability in DuBois III
If now the economic development of the South is to be pushed to the verge of exploitation, as seems probable, then we have a mass of workingmen thrown into relentless competition with the workingmen of the world, but handicapped by a training the very opposite to that of the modern self-reliant democratic laborer. What the black laborer needs is careful personal guidance, group leadership of men with hearts in their bosoms, to train them to foresight, carefulness, and honesty.
This unfortunate economic situation does not mean the hindrance of all advance in the black South, or the absence of a class of black landlords and mechanics who, in spite of disadvantages, are accumulating property and making good citizens. But it does mean that this class is not nearly so large as a fairer economic system might easily make it, that those who survive in the competition are handicapped so as to accomplish much less than they deserve to, and that, above all, the personnel of the successful class is left to chance and accident, and not to any intelligent culling or reasonable methods of selection.
Slide 17 The language of disability in DuBois V
To be really true, all these ideals must be melted and welded into one. The training of the schools we need to-day more than ever,—the training of deft hands, quick eyes and ears, and above all the broader, deeper, higher culture of gifted minds and pure hearts.
Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Were't not a Shame—were't not a Shame for him
In this clay carcase crippled to abide?
into one.
The training of the schools we need to-day more than ever,
—the training of deft hands, quick eyes and ears,
and above all the broader, deeper,
higher culture of gifted minds and pure hearts.
Slide 18 African Americans and the Disability Movement I
Black Disability Activist Johnnie Lacy:
“I also discovered . . . that many African-Americans consider being black as having a disability, and so they didn't really identify with disability as a disability but just as one other kind of inequity that black people had to deal with.”
Slide 19 African Americans and the Disability Movement II
“I saw disabled people demanding things . . . that should have been theirs . . . and I immediately made the connection . . . I had worked in the anti-poverty program before, and poor [Black and Latino] people were given the same kinds of lack of respect and the same kinds of treatment.”
“I can remember one manager standing up and declaring very loudly that he didn’t see a difference between disabled people and black people, because he was black, and he felt just as disabled as a disabled person. And I think he got a big support for that statement. And I think it clearly was a dividing point, between the way blacks saw disability and the way that black disabled people saw disability. There was a difference.”
Slide 1 Dear Doctor Freud. I am a disabled woman….
Slide 2 Photo of a woman in a wheelchair with text: Physically Challenged Sexually Challenging.
“Sex is an experience that transcends the human ability and rejects social commentary” -Marfisi 2009
Slide 3 Freud contributed immensely to the debate on human sexuality.
-Every false assumption is built on some fastenings of truth.
-Every valid assumption has some granite of fallacy.
Slide 4 Human Sexuality
Knowing the nature of sexuality and sex is essential for understanding the universality of human nature.
It is necessary to understand Freudian as well as other theories on human sexuality, to respect and appreciate the essential role that sex plays in every person’s emotional, psychological, and physical composition.
Slide 5 Freudian notions about sexuality
Much of Freud’s emphasis on understanding human nature and psychoanalysis was grounded in sexual development and expression.
Freud claimed that neurosis arose from repressed or frustrated sexual acceptance and expression.
In the height of Freudian psychoanalysis it was believed that women were of particular predisposition to sexual dysfunction, which manifested in various human behaviors.
Freud’s beliefs were that since women did not possess such a powerful genital apparatus as their male counterparts, that they were doomed to sexual inferiority and thus frustration. This was the rationale of penis envy.
Slide 7 Freudian notions continued
One can only make the conjecture of how Freud would view women who are actually physically disabled.
Freud believed psychological and neurological homeostasis can only be achieved between the ego and libidinal energies when there is a process of a release of libidinal energy to an external object, known as catharsis.
