DisCrit Expanded: Reverberations, Ruptures, and Inquiries

This sequel to "DisCrit—Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education" delves into how DisCrit has deepened and expanded its understanding of racism and ableism, offering nuanced perspectives across borders, disciplines, identities, and resistances. It raises critical questions about accounting for oppressions faced by minoritized individuals with disabilities in educational contexts and explores the use of DisCrit in supporting activism, solidarities, and collective resistance. The book emphasizes the lived experiences of people with disabilities as knowledge generators and highlights the importance of integrating racism and ableism into analyses across disciplines.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 30 April 2022
Publisher: Teachers' College Press

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 introduction 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?

Book Features:
Expands the discussion on DisCrit to include issues of language, citizenship, and post-secondary education, and more.

Presents a robust engagement with DisCrit that reaches across disciplines, geographies, and temporalities.

Highlights the lived experience of minoritized individuals with disabilities.

Provides a critical analysis of the intersectionality of race, gender, sexuality, and ability.

Explores the role of education in perpetuating and challenging oppressive systems.

Offers practical strategies for promoting equity and inclusion in educational settings.

Encourages readers to think critically and challenge their own biases and assumptions.

Is an essential resource for scholars, educators, activists, and anyone interested in disability studies and critical race theory.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807766347