Those They Called Idiots
Download or Read eBook Those They Called Idiots PDF written by Simon Jarrett and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Simon Jarrett |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2020-11-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781789143027 |
ISBN-13 | : 1789143020 |
Rating | : 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Those They Called Idiots by : Simon Jarrett
Book excerpt: Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal courtrooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art, and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of ideas about intelligence and race, while bringing into sharp focus the lives of people often seen as the most marginalized in society.