DisCrit— Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education. David J. Connor, Beth A. Ferri, and Subini A. Annamma, (Eds.). New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 2016, 279 pp., $44.95 (paperback)

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-406
Author(s):  
Revie Gloshanda Lawyer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Teachers College

scholarly journals DisCrit: os limites da interseccionalidade para pensar sobre a pessoa negra com deficiência

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Oliveira de Almeida ◽  
Luana Adriano Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory

A Critical Race Theory (CRT) pode ser conceituada como um quadro referencial que performa uma leitura racializada das relações de classe, e uma leitura de classe das relações étnico-raciais. Os Disability Studies (DS), por sua vez, consistem no programa teórico pautado pela análise dos significados e das concepções de deficiência em sociedade. Engendrada na interseccionalidade entre essas perspectivas, a DisCrit surge como um campo emergente na teoria crítica, que busca reconhecer e aprofundar as influências mútuas entre a Critical Race Theory (CRT) e os Disability Studies (DS). Sua meta imediata é descrita como o integral endereçamento da realidade interseccional de corpos marcados pela negritude e pela deficiência. Há, contudo, um objetivo estrutural de fundamentação da DisCrit, consistente no entrelaçamento dos conceitos de raça e deficiência a partir da crítica da normalidade. A partir disso, buscamos, como objetivo geral, reanalisar a estabilidade conceitual da interseccionalidade como instrumento teórico para entender a experiência da pessoa negra com deficiência. Nossos objetivos específicos são: compreender a DisCrit e seu lugar nos estudos brasileiros de deficiência; tratar da interseccionalidade como cruzamento de duas ou mais categorias socialmente marginalizadas; e propor uma noção de interseccionalidade que redefina normalidades em cor e funcionamentos. Partimos do esforço por compreender se a DisCrit, fundamentada na interseccionalidade entre raça e deficiência, endereça adequadamente as estruturas de opressão geradas pela normalidade. A metodologia utilizada pautou-se por uma pesquisa hipotético-dedutiva, com abordagem qualitativo-descritiva e com aporte fundamental na revisão bibliográfica. Apontamos para a conclusão teórica de que a DisCrit é relevante quando sustentada em uma abordagem interseccional intercategorial sensível à maneira como diferentes marcadores (estampas) sociais recaem sobre um mesmo corpo. No campo do levantamento de literatura brasileira, apontamos para a necessidade de aprofundamento de estudos que contemplem raça e deficiência como categorias enredadas por uma concepção de normalidade.

scholarly journals Review of DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education by David J. Connor, Beth A. Ferri & Subini A. Annamma, Eds. (2016)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 554-558
Author(s):  
David Jaulus
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory

DisCrit places scholars from the field of Disability Studies (DS) in conversation with those from Critical Race Theory (CRT). Specifically, dis/ability is put into conversation with class- and race-based analyses to formulate an intersectional framework1. The concept of intersectionality has taken on heightened importance within Disability Studies in recent years. While Discrit is primarily intended for scholars and aspiring academics, the text also directly speaks to people like me, who identify as dis/abled.

White Privilege and Power in the NYS Opt-Out Movement

2021 ◽  
Vol 123 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Rosa L. Rivera-Mccutchen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
New York State ◽  
High Stakes Testing ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
York State ◽  
Opt Out

Background Part of a special issue on the high-stakes testing opt-out movement, this article focuses its analysis on the movement within New York State, and examines white privilege and power within one specific organization, the NYS Allies for Public Education (NYSAPE). Specifically, I examine how the public-facing work of NYSAPE addressed (or ignored) race and/or racism in their efforts to resist high-stakes testing. I also ask, in what ways do their public stances affirm and reinforce white privilege and power? Purpose I explore the opt-out movement in New York State, and argue that it is a movement that has been largely dominated by white privilege and power. Employing critical race theory as analytical and methodological tools, I briefly examine the development and policy positions of NYSAPE, a coalition of grassroots parent, educator and community organizations. Research Design This qualitative case study focuses on NYSAPE and employs critical race theory as a methodological and analytical framework, with specific emphasis on whiteness as property (power) and interest convergence. Conclusions/Recommendations The paper aims to engage the opt-out movement in considering how its (in)actions are shaped by racism, a deeply entrenched element in our society, and pushes the movement to take a more liberatory stance for all children. Leaders within the opt-out movement, particularly in predominantly white and middle- to upper-class communities, have to examine their complicity in perpetuating racial inequities.

scholarly journals Troubled Times: Disability, Sexuality and Futurity in Mozambican, Ugandan and Zimbabwean Political Cultures

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Eleanor K Jones
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Political Cultures ◽  
The Future

Abstract Since the earliest days of European expansionism, Africa has held a dual place in the Western imaginary, cast as a space of futurelessness even as white futurities were predicated on its exploitation. Appropriations of the future have persisted post-liberation, revealed in the divestment of futurity from bodies marked as queer or disabled. Drawing on historical moments and literary texts from Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe, and on insights from queer theory, critical race theory and disability studies, I seek to demonstrate that the logics of white supremacy can be seen at work in these mechanisms of exclusion, even where whiteness itself is displaced – but that literary invocation of queerness and disability can thus be used to mobilize critique of this continuity. In centring the circumscription of futurity at the heart of colonialism, heteronormativity and ableism, then, I underscore the critical value of reading these as reciprocal and inextricable systems of power.

Ahumans: A Guide to Nonmarket Living

Reified Life ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 249-270
Author(s):  
J. Paul Narkunas
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory

The conclusion brings together and extends some general lines of argument within the book. The book closes with several axioms to question the present reification of life and to offer strategies for non-market living, a user’s guide to living ahumanly that marks affinities and points of critique with new ecologies, disability studies, critical race theory, feminism, animal rights scholars, materialists and realists, and object-oriented ontologists.

Critical Race Theory Meets the NYPD: An Assessment of Anti-Racist Pedagogy for Police in New York City

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avram Bornstein ◽  
Sophine Charles ◽  
Jannette Domingo ◽  
Carmen Solis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
York City ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory
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