African-American with Spinal Cord Injury

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This paper examines how being a minority, specifically an African- American minority with a spinal cord injury or other disability, impacts one's lifestyle, outlook, social status, and potential for success/employment.

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"According to Killeen & O'Day (2002), a new paradigm of disability has emerged in the last two decades that views persons with a disability as the product of the interaction between individuals and their surroundings. New research has worked toward crafting a new definition of disability, one that defines disability as a product of the interaction between "the individual and environment" suggesting that the problems associated with a disability "stern from a disabling environment rather than from the personal defects of deficiencies" (Killeen & O?Day, 2002, p. 9)."

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