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In this part of the class, we are going to work on holding feminist/queer/anti-racist disability studies together for the purposes of interrupting white/ableist affect in classrooms. Together, we will read “Radical Disability Politics” by A.J. Withers and Liat Ben-Moshe with Lydia X. Z. Brown, Loree Erickson, Rachel da Silva Gorman, Talila A. Lewis, Lateef McLeod and Mia Mingus. Click here and Read this text as a lens into how we will see radical disability politics.
We will also center race and disability in Texas in this part of the class so also read: “Hypocrisy, State Policy, and African American Students with Disabilities: The Guise of Access” by Lolita A. Tabron and Karen Ramlackhanm (click here... and feel free to skip the quantitative discussion; just be sure you pay close attention to the findings section which has been highlighted for you). In your writing, address these questions:
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After the two required articles above, read any one of the articles below:
NOTE: Do an online search and find a disability statement that you think best belongs on your syllabus and/or best attempts an anti-racist/anti-ableist framework. Be thinking about this for the draft of your syllabus that is coming soon.
Please submit this writing in a google folder that you maintain throughout the semester that you give me access to. Your writing is DUE before class. You can expect comments by the end of the week. We will follow our zoom plan for the course and open with two presenters.
- “The Able-Bodied Slave” by Cristina Visperas in Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (2019)
- "An Open Letter to White Disability Studies and Ableist Institutions of Higher Education" by Angel L. Miles, Akemi Nishida, Anjali J. Forber-Pratt in Disability Studies Quarterly (2015)
- “Blue Blackness, Black Blueness: Making Sense of Blackness and Disability” by Therí Pickens in African American Review (2017)
- “Conceptualizing Color-evasiveness: Using Dis/ ability Critical Race Theory to Expand a Color-Blind Racial Ideology in Education and Society” by Subini Ancy Annamma, Darrell D. Jackson & Deb Morrison in Race, Ethnicity, and Education (2016)
- "Cripping The Resistance: No Revolution Without Us" AND "Nobody Left Behind, But Wanting to Run Like Hell: Disability Justice Survival Strategies for the Current Apocalypse Moment" by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- "Developing and Reflecting on a Black Disability Studies Pedagogy: Work from the National Black Disability Coalition" by Jane Dunhamn, Jerome Harris, Shancia Jarrett, Leroy Moore, Akemi Nishida, Margaret Price, Britney Robinson, Sami Schalk in Disability Studies Quarterly (2015)
- “DisCrit Classroom Ecology: Using Praxis to Dismantle Dysfunctional Education Ecologies” by Subini Annamma, Deb Morrison in Teaching and Teacher Education (2018)
- “Disability Critical Race Theory: Exploring the Intersectional Lineage, Emergence, and Potential Futures of DisCrit in Education” in Review of Education Research by Subini Ancy AnnAmma, Beth a. Ferri, David j. Connor (2018)
- “DisCrit Solidarity as Curriculum Studies and Transformative Praxis” by Subini Ancy Annamma and Tamara Handy in Curriculum Inquiry (2019)
- “Disability: Missing from the Conversation of Violence” by Carlyn O. Mueller, Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Julie Sriken in Journal of Social Issues (2019)
- “Honoring Arnaldo Rios Soto and Charles Kinsey: Achieving Liberation through Disability Solidarity” by Talila A Lewis (see https://medium.com/@talewis/achieving-liberation-through-disability-solidarity-64ba42c27191)
- “How the Nation’s Largest Minority Became White: Race Politics and the Disability Rights Movement, 1970–1980” by Jennifer Erkulwater in Journal of Policy History (2018)
- “Incarcerated DisCrit: The Intersection of Disproportionality in Race, Disability, and Juvenile Justice” by Taryn VanderPyl in Justice Policy Journal (2018)
- "Just Like Me, Just Like You"- Narrative Erasure as Disability Normalization in Children's Picture Books” by Tanja Aho and Grit Alter in Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (2018)
- “Lewis Clarke and the ‘Color’ of Disability: The Past and Future of Black Disability Studies” by Jean Franzino in Disability Studies Quarterly (2016)
- “Mapping Consequential Geographies in the Carceral State: Education Journey Mapping as a Qualitative Method With Girls of Color With Dis/abilities” by Subini Ancy Annamma in Qualitative Inquiry (2018)
- “Schooling the Police: Race, Disability, and the Conduct of School Resource Officers” by Amanda Merkwae in Michigan Journal of Race and Law (2015)
- “Strong Black Women”: African American Women with Disabilities, Intersecting Identities, and Inequality” by Angel Love Miles in Gender and Society (2018)
- “We are Here We Are Here to Crip That Shit: Embodying Accountability beyond the ‘Word’” in CCC by Cody A. Jackson and Christina V. Cedillo (2020)
- “What Feels More Than Feeling?”: Theorizing the Unthinkability of Black Affect” by Tyrone Palmer in Critical Ethnic Studies (2017)
- “Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework” by Moya Bailey and Izetta Autumn Mobley in Gender and Society (2018)
NOTE: Do an online search and find a disability statement that you think best belongs on your syllabus and/or best attempts an anti-racist/anti-ableist framework. Be thinking about this for the draft of your syllabus that is coming soon.
Please submit this writing in a google folder that you maintain throughout the semester that you give me access to. Your writing is DUE before class. You can expect comments by the end of the week. We will follow our zoom plan for the course and open with two presenters.
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