Blue Blackness, Black Blueness: Making Sense of Blackness and Disability

Pickens, Therí A.

doi:10.1353/afa.2017.0015

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“…Critical disability studies has been described as a 'location populated by people who advocate building upon the foundational perspectives of disability studies whilst integrating new and transformative agendas associated with postcolonial, queer and feminist theories' (Goodley, 2016: 190-19). Writers such as Titchkosky (2014Titchkosky ( , 2015Titchkosky ( , 2016, Pickens (2017) and contributors to Grech and Soldatic's (2016) Disability in the Global South are just some examples of critical disability studies scholars that take seriously the racialisation of everyday life, draw on postcolonial and majority world scholarship as primary theoretical inspirations and attempt to think across and with disability, race and ethnicity as they intersect with one another.…”

Section: An Intersectional Starting Pointmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Desire for New Humanisms

Goodley

Lawthom

Liddiard

et al. 2020

J. Disabil. Stud. Educ.

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This paper articulates our desire for new humanisms in a contemporary cultural, economic and global context that has been described as posthuman. As researchers committed to modes of radical, critical, politicised and inclusive education, we are mindful of the significance of social theory and its relationship with articulations of social justice. Whilst sympathetic to the potentiality of posthuman thought we grapple with the imperative to embrace new humanisms that historicise and recognise global inequalities that concurrently exist in relation to a myriad of human categories including class, age, geopolitical location, gender, sexuality, race and disability. We focus in on the latter two categories and draw on ideas from postcolonial and critical disability studies. Our argument considers the problem of humanism (as a product of colonial Western imaginaries), the critical responses offered by posthuman thinking and then seeks to rearticulate forms of new humanism that are responsive to the posthuman condition and, crucially, the political interventions of Postcolonial and Critical Disability Scholars. We then outline six new humanist projects that could productively feed into the work of the Journal of Disability Studies in Education.

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Section: An Intersectional Starting Pointmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Desire for New Humanisms

Goodley

Lawthom

Liddiard

et al. 2020

J. Disabil. Stud. Educ.

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“…Schalk’s scholarship is joined by the work of a cadre of emerging scholars who ground their work in Black feminist methodologies, including Angel Miles and Michelle Jarman (Miles, Nishida, and Forber-Pratt 2017). Therí A. Pickens was the editor of a special issue of the African American Review (2017), the first entire issue focused on disability and only the second time that a scholar has endeavored to bring together a broad array of those working at the intersection of Black Studies and disability.…”

Section: Disability In Black Studies and Blackness In Disability Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework

2018

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Black feminist disability framework allows for methodological considerations of the intersectional nature of oppression. our work in this article is twofold: to acknowledge the need to consider disability in Black Studies and race in Disability Studies, and to forward an intersectional framework that considers race, gender, and disability to address the gaps in both Black Studies and Disability Studies. By employing a Black feminist disability framework, scholars of african american and Black Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Disability Studies have a flexible and useful methodology through which to consider the historical, social, cultural, political, and economic reverberations of disability.

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“…Perhaps the primacy of deficit and medical models of disability in research have created barriers to examining disability as an identity and socially constructed system of power. While intersectional scholarship in the study of disability is growing, this literature is primarily located in special education, health sciences, and rehabilitation fields (Balcazar et al 2010;Conner 2008;Schulz and Mullings 2006) and through literary, historical, and theoretical approaches in the humanities (Bell 2011;Boster 2013;Logue and Blanck 2010;Pickens 2017;Schalk 2018). Arguably, special education has the largest body of intersectional scholarship on disability.…”

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confidence: 99%

“Strong Black Women”: African American Women with Disabilities, Intersecting Identities, and Inequality

Miles

2018

Gender & Society

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Angel love Miles University of illinois at Chicago, UsA in a mixed-methods study of the barriers and facilitators to homeownership for African American women with physical disabilities, self-concept emerged among the primary themes. This article discusses how participants in the study perceived themselves and negotiated how they were perceived by others as multiply marginalized women. Using what i call a feminist intersectional disability framework, i suggest that participants' relationships to care strongly contributed to their self-concept. The "strong Black Woman" trope and associated expectations had cultural and material relevance for how they interpreted themselves and were interpreted by others as receivers, managers, and providers of care. The material reality of owning or not owning a home did not reveal significant differences in the self-concepts of homeowners versus nonhomeowners. Rather, it was through conversations about homeownership that this data around self-concept in relationship to care was revealed.

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Blue Blackness, Black Blueness: Making Sense of Blackness and Disability

Cited by 36 publications

References 9 publications

The Desire for New Humanisms

The Desire for New Humanisms

Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework

“Strong Black Women”: African American Women with Disabilities, Intersecting Identities, and Inequality

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