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发表于2024-11-24
Wheelchair Warrior pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was "both the worst and best thing that happened" to him. The incident, he believes, surely spared the then sixteen-year-old African American from prison and/or an early death. It transformed him in other ways, too. He attended college and made wheelchair basketball his passion - ultimately becoming a star athlete and playing on the U.S. National Wheelchair Basketball Team. In "Wheelchair Warrior", Juette poignant memoir is bracketed by sociologist Ronald Berger's thoughtful introduction and conclusion, which places this narrative of race, class, masculinity and identity into proper sociological context. While Juette's story never gives into despair, it does challenge the idea of the "supercrip".
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Wheelchair Warrior pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024