Keith Mayes: The Unteachables Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education
Register to receive Zoom link Professor Keith Mayes's recent book, The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education (University of Minnesota Press), examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system and public policy, it explores the discriminatory labeling of Black students, and how it indelibly contributed to special education disproportionality, to student discipline and push-out practices, and to the school-to-prison pipeline effect. The civil rights and the educational disability rights movements, Mayes shows, have both collaborated and worked at … Read More
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