One of the significant issues in Disability Studies is the intersection and overlap of race, gender, and class with disability.
For the reading for this week, I’ve posted some additional text here. Pick two of the readings here – I would recommend Eli Clare and Chris Bell, but all are interesting.
Objective: To discover the connections and intersections of race, gender, class, culture, and disability.
Overview: This week, we explore how the intersection of race, gender, class, and culture affects people with disabilities differently. Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights activist and scholar, coined the term ‘Intersectionality in 1989. She argues in her recent TedTalk (see below) that these multiple identities create an enhanced vulnerability to increased oppression and discrimination.
The goal of this week’s session is to explore these issues, conduct an analysis, and think about their impact and consequences.
Readings:
Bell, C. (2015). Is Disability Studies Actually White Disability Studies? in L. Davis, The Disability Studies Reader. DSR Ch 22 Belll White Disability Studies.Bell.pdf
Lukin, J. (2015). Disability and Blackness in L. Davis, Disability Studies Reader, Chapter 28, pp 308. DSR Lukin Disability and Blackness.PDF
Clare, E. (2015). Stones in My Pockets, Stones in My Hear, in L. Davis, The Disability Studies Reader, Chapter 36, pp 497.
DSR Clare Stones in My Pocket.PDF
Erevelles, N. and Minear, A. (2015). Unspeakable Offenses: Untangling Race and Disability in Discourses of Intersectionality, in The Disability Studies Reader, Chapter 26, pp 354.
DSR Erevelles Unspeakable Offenses Race and Disabilities.PDF
Garland-Thomson, R. (2015). Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory, in The Disability Studies Reader, Chapter 25, pp 333
DSR Garland-Thomson Feminist Theory.PDF
OCR files:
CHAPTER 23 Disability and Blackness Josh Lukin OCR.docx
CHAPTER 25 Integrating Disability Transforming Feminist Theory Rosemarie Garland OCR.docx
CHAPTER 26 Unspeakable Offenses Untangling Race and Disability in Discourses of Intersectionality OCR.docx
ELI CLARE CHAPTER 36 OCR text.docx
Additional Resources
* Dunhamn, J., Harris, J., Jarrett, S., Moore, L., Nishida, A., Price, M., Robinson, R., & Schalk, S. (2015). “Developing and Reflecting on a Black Disability Studies Pedagogy: Work from the National Black Disability Studies Coalition. Disability Studies Quarterly 35(2). Retrieved from http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4637/3933
* Kimberlé Crenshaw – You can see a TedTalk presentation by Kimberlé Crenshaw, the author of the term, ‘Intersectionality’, discussing race and gender at https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality (18 min.).
* Ellen Stohl – You can see the video about Ellen Stohl (p. 345) posing in Playboy magazine referenced in the Garland-Thomson chapter at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiMlt9VQjiE (TV interview, 3 min.).
(Longer interview, 30 min.).
* Aimee Mullins – You can see a video of Aimee Mullins (p. 350) referenced in the Garland-Thomson chapter at
YOU MAY HAVE TO RIGHT-CLICK AND OPEN THE HYPERLINK SEPARATELY.
* Discussions of Intersectionality including issues of race, gender, queer, trans, native, migrants, class and disability.
https://www.raceforward.org/videos/RaceAnd
* National Black Disability Coalition
http://www.blackdisability.org
* Charter Schools, Civil Rights and School Discipline: A Comprehensive Review. David l J. Losen, Michael A.
Keith II, Cheri L. Hodson, Tia E. Martine. March 15, 2016. A national study found that 235 charter schools suspended more than half of their students with disabilities.
https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/resources/projects/center-for-civil-rights-remedies/school-to-prison-folder/federal-reports/charter-schools-civil-rights-and-school-discipline-a-comprehensive-review
The reading for this week concerns identity, and the overlap and intersection of other identities with disability identity. Chris Bell was a disability activist who wrote about what he felt was the paucity of literature about African American identity and its intersection with disability identity. Similarly, Eli Clare writes about queer/transgender identity and its overlap with disability identity. Lennard Davis points out that disability is an ‘unstable category’ where identification and identity can shift.
I’d like us to use these three pieces as a framework to discuss disability and identity this week. What do these pieces mean to you? Did you identify with them, parts of them, none of them? Which piece (or section of a piece) resonated with you? Why or why not?
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