31.064 - Disabling Race and Racing Disability: Developing DisCrit

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel presentation will serve as an opportunity to further explore and advance DisCrit, a relatively new theoretical framework that builds on elements of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Disability Studies in Education (DSE) to advance an intersectional analysis of race and ability. Noted scholars from both fields of study share recent thinking about ways in which DisCrit can be used to move beyond contemporary impasses of uni-dimensionally researching race or dis/ability within education and other disciplines. The panel will forge a dialogue to reframe and rethink issues of disability and race that undergird longstanding problems of educational inequity, including the achievement gap, overrepresentation, school-to-prison pipeline, and standardization/normalization.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Disability Studies in Education

Chair

• Beth A. Ferri, Syracuse University

Papers

• Race, Class, and Ability - Sally Tomlinson, University of Oxford

• Calcifying Categories: Measurement in Search of Understanding - Elizabeth B. Kozleski, The University of Kansas; Alfredo J. Artiles, Arizona State University

• The Wrong Kind of Special? The Black Middle Class and Dis/Ability - David Gillborn, The University of Birmingham

• The Slippery Slope: Using DisCrit to Examine Student Pushout Into the School-to-Prison Pipeline - Deanna Adams, Syracuse University; Nirmala Erevelles, The University of Alabama

• What a Good Boy: The Deployment and Distribution of "Goodness" as Ideological Property in Schools - Alicia A. Broderick, Montclair State University; Zeus Leonardo, University of California - Berkeley

Discussant

• David J. Connor, Hunter College - CUNY