The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The names of the editors “Subini A. Annamma” “Beth A. Ferri” and “David J. Connor” are written in the upper right corner in small blue writing. The title “DisCrit Expanded” is written in large stacked purple text across the length of the cover. “DisCrit” is a darker shade than “Expanded”. The subtitle “Reverberations, Ruptures, and Inquiries” is written below this in smaller text. “Reverberations” is written in black text, “Ruptures” in dark red, “and Inquiries” in blue. The name of the series “Disability, Culture and Equity Series” is written at the bottom of the cover in small black capitals. The name of the series editor “Alfredo J. Artiles” is written to the write of this in smaller writing. The background shows art of five people in front of a white wall, leaning against a pink surface. Images on the pink surface show sign language, a brain in a head, a wheelchair, a service dog, an eye, a typewriter, and a prosthetic leg. /end]

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Content Warning:

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Summary:

This sequel to the influential 2016 work DisCrit—Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education explores how DisCrit has both deepened and expanded, providing increasingly nuanced understandings about how racism and ableism circulate across geographic borders, academic disciplines, multiplicative identities, intersecting oppressions, and individual and cultural resistances. Following an incisive foreword by DisCrit intellectual forerunner Alfredo Artiles, a diverse group of authors engage in inward, outward, and margin-to-margin analyses that raise deep and enduring questions about how we as scholars and teachers account for and counteract the collusive nature of oppressions faced by minoritized individuals with disabilities, particularly in educational contexts. Contributors ask readers to consider incisive questions such as: What are the affordances and constraints of DisCrit as it travels outside of U.S. contexts? How can DisCrit, as a critical and intersectional framework, be used to support and extend diverse forms of activism, expanded solidarities, and collective resistance? How can DisCrit inform and be augmented by engagements with other critical theories and modes of inquiry? How can DisCrit help to illuminate agency and resistance among learners with complex learning needs? How might DisCrit inform legal studies and other disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts? How can DisCrit be a critical friend to interrogations involving issues of citizenship, language, and more?

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Notes:

This book is available in paperback, hardback and ebook format.

A list of people who contributed to this book:

• Subini Ancy Annamma (editor)
• Beth A. Ferri (editor)
• David J. Connor (editor)
• Alfredo J. Artiles (foreword, series editor)
• Jamelia N. Morgan
• Lauren E. Shallish
• Michael D. Smith
• Ashley Taylor
• Amanda Miller
• Sylvia Nyegenye
• Rose Mostafa-Shoukry
• Valentina Migliarini
• Chelsea Stinson
• David I. Hernández-Saca
• Tanushree Sarkar
• Carlyn Mueller
• Anjali Forber-Pratt
• Joy Banks
• Phillandra Smith
• D’Arcee Charington Neal
• Christina Payne-Tsoupros
• Najma Johnson
• Jennifer Phuong
• María Cioè-Peña
• Alexis Padilla
• Nitasha M. Clark
• George W. Noblit
• Charna D’Ardenne
• David A. Koppenhaver
• Karen Erickson
• Gloshanda Lawyer

This is a follow up to DisCrit- Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education.

Annamma also wrote The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus.

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Archivist Comments:

A note from the submitter: “[DisCrit and DisCrit Expanded] are really good reads about the mutually constitutive nature of ableism and racism, like the ways disability labels can be used as a method of de facto segregation for youth of color whose disability labels would otherwise afford them access to inclusive services as opposed to segregated education.”

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