Why have recent scholars called for examining disability as a “social construct” and for viewing disability as a “category of analysis” alongside the categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality?

I NEED THREE ESSAYS. EACH ESSAY SHOULD BE 2 OR 2.5 PAGES. A TOTAL OF 6.5-7 PAGES ALL TOGETHER FOR THREE ESSAYS. MAKE SURE YOU LABEL THE THREE ESSAYS. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU CITE THE SOURCES AND REFERENCES THOSE SOURCES IN THE ESSAYS. MAKE SURE TO USE CLEAR SENTENCES AND ANSWER THE PROMPT QUESTIONS DON’T USE BIG WORDS BE CLEAR. A TOTAL OF 6.5-7 PAGES. MAKE SURE TO HAVE A PLOT OR A STORY OR A GOOD CONSTRUCTION TO THE PAPER SO THAT IT FLOWS AND IT ISN’T ALL OVER THE PLACE. USE THE SOURCES TO THE ANSWER THE PROMPT AND CITE THEM IN THE ESSAYS

1ST ESSAY PROMPT: 2-2:5 PAGES LONG
Prepare a brief essay in which you discuss how the study of disability can broaden the academic study of history. Why have recent scholars called for examining disability as a “social construct” and for viewing disability as a “category of analysis” alongside the categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Why do these contemporary scholars find the traditional “medical model” approach to disability lacking? What criticisms have been levied against the new“social construct” approach? What is your view of the “new disability history” as it has been called? As you fashion your response, reference some of the insights expressed by Kim Nielsen in her article “Historical Thinking and Disability History”

for this source, you will use: https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/107/107

2ND ESSAY PROMPT: 2-2.5 PAGES LONG
From the time of the American Revolution in 1776 through the end of the Civil War in 1865, American views and approaches toward disability changed. Explain how. For example, how did the American Revolution change the approach toward disabled veterans? What was the Market Revolution and how did it change approaches toward disability? How were new “categories of dependence” created as a result of industrialization and other changes in American society? Explain the move toward the institutionalization of disabled individuals. How did asylums for deaf or blind individuals differ from asylums for the mentally ill? What was the impact of the Civil War on American perceptions of disability?

3RD ESSAY PROMPT: 2-2:5 PAGES LONG
Offer an essay in which you compare colonial perspectives toward “disability.”Specifically, how did Native Americans approach “disability”? What about American colonists in the British colonies in what way(s) were African-American slavery and disability linked? How did African
-American slaves respond to disability in their communities?

USE SOURCE: CONTRASTING CULTURES COLONIAL PERSPECTIVES ON DISABILITY POWERPOINT

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