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as well as fifteen other titles, many in disability studies. He now co-edits "Crip: New
Directions in Disability Studies" for NYU Press along with Robert McRuer and Ellen Samuels. He maintained a personal blog from 2004 to 2010 and wrote for
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on contemporary black intellectuals; these essays, particularly the latter, drew a wide array of energetic and often contentious responses. Some of the
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Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read
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