Examining the Mass Incarceration, Intersectionalities, and Carceral State of Special Education for Black Children

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this symposium session is to examine how researchers and community stakeholders have collaborated to end the mass incarceration of Black children with dis/abilities in special education. Despite an increase in research on the silencing and criminalization of Black children in school, less is known about the marginalization of Black parents, their children, and community members who are advocating for restorative change. This session draws from empirically-based research, and practitioner-based approaches for understanding the differences and intersectionalities of race, gender, and dis/ability for Black children who are overdisciplined and hypersegregated in school. Moreover, this symposium discusses how advocates have circumvented carceral punishments, and sought liberating and transformative change in education.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Differences and Intersectionalities

Chair

• Dorothy E. Hines, University of Kansas

Papers

• Special yet Unequal: Race, Disability, and the Prison Pipeline for Black Youth in America - Charles Bell, Illinois State University

• A Synthesis of Research on White Teachers' Color-Blind Racism and Black Students in Special Education - Julia Camille Ransom, Pearson Education, Inc.; Crystal Menzies, Learning Research & Development Center

• A Pattern of Practice: An Examination of Federal Policies and Black Girls' With Dis/abilities - Dorothy E. Hines, University of Kansas; Jemimah L Young, Texas A&M University; Abiola Farinde-Wu, University of Massachusetts - Boston; Ayana Allen-Handy, Drexel University

• "When You Send the Rain": Education and the Carceral Matrix Imaginary - Awo Okaikor M. Aryee-Price, Education for Liberation Network

Discussants

• Mildred Boveda, The Pennsylvania State University

• Endia J. Lindo, Texas Christian University