Allies & Obstacles

Pamela Block · Allison C. Carey · Richard K. Scotch

Allies and Obstacles and Family and Disability Activism

Books by Allison C. Carey, Pamela Block, and Richard K. Scotch, published by Temple University Press.

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Award-winning scholarship

  • Outstanding Publication Award, 2022

    Section on Disability in Society, American Sociological Association · Allies and Obstacles

  • Scholarly Achievement Award, 2021

    North Central Sociological Association · Allies and Obstacles

Family and Disability Activism is a book that proposes dialogue in this moment of division. An excellent expansion of Allies and Obstacles, it is the best short anthology I’ve read on disability justice activism in years. The cross-disability inclusion is on point and needed.

Kerima Çevik, Disabled Parent Activist, Creator of #AutisticWhileBlack, on Family and Disability Activism

Authors, families, and strategies are as diverse as disability itself; Family and Disability Activism is an exciting foray into disability activism’s history, present, and future.

Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, authors of Disability Worlds, on Family and Disability Activism

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  • woman with short brown and grey hair in a hat and flowered blouse smiles in front of a lake and cliff.

    Pamela Block

    Professor of Anthropology, Western University

  • woman, Allison Carey with necklace glasses and curly brown and white hair below the shoulders smiles in front of a book shelf

    Allison C. Carey

    Professor, Department of Political and Social Inquiry, Shippensburg University

  • grey and white-haired balding man with a beard and glasses, suit and tie smiles at the camera

    Richard K. Scotch

    1951 – 2026

    Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Public Policy and Political Economy, The University of Texas at Dallas

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Richard K. Scotch, 1951 – 2026

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