Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-235) and index.
Contents:
Strange bedfellows: race and disability in U.S. history -- Race, ability, and (re)segregated education -- Power, race, and re/presentation: political cartoons of the Brown era -- Challenging normalcy: (dis)ability, race, and the normalized classroom -- The power of persuasion: making (non)sense of exclusion -- Shared legacies: Brown and the counterpull of inclusion -- Learning from Brown: the future of democratic schooling.
Summary:
"Reading Resistance confronts longstanding exclusionary practices in U.S. public schooling. Beth A. Ferri and David J. Connor trace the interconnected histories of race and disability in the public imagination through their nuanced analysis of editorial pages and other public discourses, including political cartoons and eugenics posters. By uncovering how the concept of disability was used to resegregate students of color after the historic Brown decision, the authors argue that special education has played a role in undermining school desegregation. In its critical, interdisciplinary focus on the interlocking politics of race and disability, Reading Resistance offers contributions to educational research, theory, and policy."--Jacket.
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