On the Situation of African-American Women with Physical Disabilities
- 1 December 1992
- journal article
- Published by Springer Publishing Company in Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling
- Vol. 23 (4) , 39-45
- https://doi.org/10.1891/0047-2220.23.4.39
Abstract
This paper explores a category of people with disabilities, African-American women, that is rarely studied by scholars and rarely the subject of education and training within the fields of medicine and rehabilitation, African-American women have a high incidence of physical disability; and among those with disabilities, their socioeconomic situation is less well off than would be predicted on the basis of general patterns of male-female, White-Black, nondisabled-disabled disparity. Drawing upon quantitative surveys as well as qualitative interviews, the authors explore factors which appear likely to contribute to the situation of African-American women with disabilities.Keywords
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