The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The background is solid black. In the centre, a large box split into four colourful sections. The upper left section is blue, the upper right section is red, the lower left section is green and the lower right section is purple. In each section, art of young women. Their faces are all created using a patchwork of various skin tones. There is a yellow band behind each girls head, and 6 white bars stretch across the length of the box in the centre. Writing at the top of cover, above the box, reads “The Pedagogy of Pathologization” in large white capitals. Writing below the box reads “Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus” in small yellow writing.
The author’s name “Subini Ancy Annamma” is at the bottom of the cover, in slightly larger white capitals. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Incarceration
• TBD

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Summary:

Linking powerful first-person narratives with structural analysis, The Pedagogy of Pathologization explores the construction of criminal identities in schools via the intersections of race, disability, and gender. amid the prevalence of targeted mass incarceration. Focusing uniquely on the pathologization of female students of color, whose voices are frequently engulfed by labels of deviance and disability, a distinct and underrepresented experience of the school-to-prison pipeline is detailed through original qualitative methods rooted in authentic narratives. The book’s DisCrit framework, grounded in interdisciplinary research, draws on scholarship from critical race theory, disability studies, education, women’s and girl’s studies, legal studies, and more.

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Notes:

Winner of the 2019 Aesa Critic’s Choice Book Award.

Winner of the 2018 National Women’s Studies Association Alison Piepmeier Book Prize.

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Archivist Comments:

I can’t find a lot on this book, however the things I have seen basically say that while it might look like a very academic in tone text, it’s actually an easier read. And the subject material can be a bit hard to digest, but it’s an interesting and necessary area of exploration.

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