... This chapter addresses accessible futures for the ever-expanding disability demographic and its social and political importance. Demographers helped the authors understand the epistemology of numbers governing efforts to track the always unstable category of disability. Their measurements inform...

... Disability is a central concern in Junot Díaz’s work. His characters’ bodies show the effects of poor nutrition, addiction, overwork, inadequate housing, and cancer. The stories “Ysrael” and “No Face,” from Drown, depict a young boy in the Dominican Republic whose face is disfigured after a pig...