Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-399) and index.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Contextualizing myself in practice, theory and place -- Chapter 2. Theories and methods: constituting an intersectional lens for urban special education -- Transition: Introduction to portraits-in-progress -- Chapter 3. Chanell: "Why have I got to be like this?" -- Chapter 4. Jarrel: "We see things differently, we learn things differently" -- Chapter 5. Michael: "I get into so much trouble just by walking" -- Chapter 6. Michelle: "Made by a White person, is for a White person" -- Chapter 7. Precious: "Most of the people that work in McDonald's ... are special ed. people" -- Chapter 8. Santiago: "It's the look they give you ... everywhere you go" -- Chapter 9. Vanessa: "What kind of person, role model would I be?" -- Chapter 10. W.G.: "Life is hard whether you're labeled LD or not" -- Transition: Analytical choices -- Chapter 11. The subject and power (the structural domain) -- Chapter 12. Normalizing practices of schooling (the disciplinary domain) -- Chapter 13. Stereotypes and degrees of self-inscription (the hegemonic domain) seen in everyday events (the interpersonal domain) -- Chapter 14. The politics of empowerment: awareness, choices, and pushing back -- Chapter 15. Contemplations, implications, and questions.
Summary:
"Urban Narratives foregrounds previously silenced voices of young people of color who are labeled disabled. Overrepresented in special education classes, yet underrepresented in educational research, these students - the largest group within segregated special education classes - share their perceptions of the world and their place within it. Eight 'portraits in progress' consisting of their own words and framed by their poetry and drawings, reveal insights about life inside and out of the American urban education system. The book uses an intersectional analysis to examine how power circulates in society throughout and among historical cultural, institutional, and interpersonal domains, impacting social, academic, and economic opportunities for individuals, and expanding or circumscribing their worlds."--Jacket.
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