The Intersection of White Supremacy and the Education Industrial Complex: An Analysis of #BlackLivesMatter and the Criminalization of People With Disabilities

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Abstract

This paper uses interdisciplinary tools to study inequities in education, policy as discourse, and the race-place nexus which foregrounds racial relations in the coverage of the North Miami police shooting of Charles Kinsey. With a specific focus on the question do Black Lives Matter in the U.S. education industrial complex, we begin with a description of how the education industrial complex serves white supremacy. We acknowledge the racialization of disabilities and the historical intersections between racial oppression and the marginalization of people with disabilities. Through the examination of media coverage such as Kinsey’s, we explore how the discourse about the value of Black lives implicate K-12 schools in perpetuating racism, ableism, and the disposability of Black, Brown, and disabled bodies.

Authors

• Brittany Alexis Aronson, Miami University - Oxford

• Mildred Boveda, Arizona State University - Tempe