Disability, Intersectional Agency, and Latinx Identity: Theorizing LatDisCrit Counterstories

LatDisCrit explores the relationship between disability and agency by examining LatDisCrit theory and activist emancipatory practice. It emphasizes the complex underpinnings of intersectionality within and beyond Latinidades, offering avenues for intersectional solidarity and radical transformational learning.

Format: Hardback
Length: 174 pages
Publication date: 29 July 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive volume explores the intricate relationship between disability and agency by delving into the realm of LatDisCrits theory and activist emancipatory practices. Drawing from the author's unique experiential and analytical perspectives as a blind brown Latinx engaged scholar and activist residing in the highly racialized global north context of the United States, LatDisCrit offers a profound exploration of the complexities surrounding Latinx identities.

LatDisCrit seamlessly integrates critical LatCrit and DisCrit, which examine the interplay of race/ethnicity, diasporic cultures, historical sociopolitics, and disability within diverse Latinx identities primarily situated in the global north. By incorporating global south epistemologies, LatDisCrit fosters a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted dynamics at play. Through intersectional analysis of key concepts, employing critical counterstories, adhering to critical race theory methodological traditions, and engaging potential decoloniality treatments of material precarity and agency, this book emphasizes the intricate underpinnings of intersectionality within and beyond Latinidades.

By carefully intertwining disability identity and disability rights/empowerment, the volume creates pathways for intersectional solidarity and facilitates spaces for radical transformational learning. This book holds immense appeal to scholars and students engaged in disability studies, intersectional disability justice activists, critical Latinx/Chicanx studies, critical geographies, intersectional political philosophy, and political and public sociology.

Weight: 432g
Dimension: 160 x 241 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367540395