Appearance and Impact: Disability Services, Racial Cognizance, and Black Students

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 10:50 am
  In Roundtable Session: #UnapologeticBlackness: Community and Family (Table 19)

Abstract

Collective care demands we assess the espoused institutional awareness of (and purported commitment to supporting) Black dis/abled students in Disability Support Service (DSS) offices. To begin, we put a critical discourse analysis of the University of California DSS websites in conversation with the narratives of Black and Brown UC Students to to investigate indicators of racial cognizance.

Authors

• Anna Acha, University of California - Riverside

• Danielle Mireles, University of Nevada - Las Vegas