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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Mexico through the Distorted Lens of Memín Pinguín -- Constructions of Gender and Nation in Selected Afro-Mexican Folktales -- Masculinity, Language and Power in Selected Afro-Mexican Corridos -- Place, Racial and Cultural Identities in Selected Afro-Mexican Oral and Lyric Verses -- Afro-Mexico in the Context of a Caribbean Literary and Cultural Aesthetics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

1. Black men and women : partnership in the 1990s -- 2. Introduction to Cornel West -- 3. Cornel West interviewed by bell hook s-- 4. Introduction to bell hooks -- 6. bell hooks interviewed by Cornel West -- 6. Dialogue between bell hooks and Cornel West -- 7. Dialogue between bell hooks and Cornel West -- 8. The dilemma of the black intellectual by Cornel West -- 9. Black women intellectuals by bell hooks.

What does it mean to live a good life? Why has it proved so difficult for people with intellectual disabilities to live one? What happens when we make a good life the centre of our consideration of people with intellectual disabilities? These questions are explored through a re-examination of ideas from philosophy and social theory, and through personal life stories. This important and timely book provides an analysis and critique of current policies and underpinning ideologies in relation to people with intellectual disabilities and explores ways in which a good life may be made more attainable.

What does it mean to have a good life? Why has it proved so difficult for people with intellectual disabilities to live one? This important book explores these questions, provides an analysis of related policies and underpinning ideologies and looks to how a good life may be made more attainable.

BackgroundThis study presents age group‐specific mortality rates and the average life expectancy of people with intellectual disabilities in Germany.MethodFor two samples from Westphalia‐Lippe and Baden‐Wuerttemberg, person‐related data for the years 2007–2009 were analysed. Age group‐specific mortality rates were estimated by exponential regression analyses.ResultsThe average life expectancy of men with intellectual disabilities was 70.9 years in Westphalia‐Lippe and 65.3 years in the Baden‐Wuerttemberg sample. Women with intellectual disabilities reached a life expectancy of 72.8 years in the Westphalian sample and 69.9 years in Baden‐Wuerttemberg. The mortality tables, the crude mortality rates and the standardized mortality rates according to the WHO standard population are reported.ConclusionComparing the results with other international studies, the trend of increasing life expectancies of people with intellectual disabilities is confirmed. People with intellectual disabilities still have a lower average life expectancy than the general population, partly due to subgroups with low life expectancies.

Responds to Adolph Reed's recent criticism (1995) of various black intellectuals, including Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates, bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, & Robin Kelley. During the era of racial segregation, black intellectuals were forced to maintain contacts with all-black organizations, professionally & socially. Contemporary black scholars speak primarily to white elites, because large institutions like the black church, civic associations, & civil rights organizations have lost their influence, & because the black freedom has fizzled. As a result, their political clout is too often measured by their ability to leverage policy within powerful white circles, rather than inside social protest formations. Nonetheless, black progressive intellectuals should attempt to engage in thoughtful, civil dialogue, & not publicly criticize each other, as Reed has done. M. Maguire

AbstractBackgroundResearch indicates Black, Indigenous, people of colour (BIPOC) with intellectual and developmental disabilities face disparities in quality of life outcomes. This study's aim was to examine how ableism and racism impacted the quality of life of BIPOC with intellectual and developmental disabilities.MethodsUsing a multilevel linear regression, we analysed secondary quality of life outcome data from Personal Outcome Measures® interviews with 1393 BIPOC with intellectual and developmental disabilities and implicit ableism and racism data from the 128 regions of the United States in which they lived (discrimination data came from 7.4 million people).ResultsWhen BIPOC with intellectual and developmental disabilities lived in regions of the United States which were more ableist and racist, they had a lower quality of life, regardless of their demographics.ConclusionAbleism and racism are a direct threat to BIPOC with intellectual and developmental disabilities' health, wellbeing, and overall quality of life.

This book contains a series of articles, written by international experts in the fields of intellectual disability and quality of life, that explore a broad range of issues that impact on the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities and their families. The book commences with a general discussion on defining quality of life and family quality of life and the appropriateness of using these constructs in the field of intellectual disability, and is followed by an analysis on the effects of living arrangements and employment on quality of life. The book concludes with discussions

AbstractResearchers, professionals, and families have shown increasing concern about the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and their families. Due to the growing interest in family quality of life (FQoL) as a key issue for social policy in the ID field, the aim of this research was to explore FQoL in Catalonia (Spain). The Spanish Family Quality of Life Scales (CdVF‐E) were completed by 144 families using the version for households with children up to 18 years of age and by 122 families using the version for households with adult children over 18 years of age. The results show that FQoL is higher in families with adult children over 18 years of age than in families with children up to 18 years of age, and there are differences among domains in both groups. Likewise, there are relations between the scores in the scales and some demographic characteristics such as marital status, level of education, employment status, and family income, particularly in households with children under 18 years of age.