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Podcast
Publication Year
2024
Description
What does a society which celebrates, rather than one that alienates, incarcerates and pathologizes disability look like? How do we break free from the chains of ableism and racism, and centre our politics around the idea that all bodies are special, and all bodies have their own specific needs that must be met? What does a non-hierarchical, universal accommodation system mean and what does it look like? Abolitionists and Columbia Law school students Pri and Reakash debunk, expose and examine the present systems of oppression and carceralisation, while working to imagine a system that works for the most marginalized and oppressed. They look for solutions in the social, political, and economics of disability and consider how the system constructs institutional structures that activate surveillance and alienation. These structures ultimately direct the person towards a carceral system.
Disability, much like race, is socially constructed. Under racial capitalism, when disability intersects with race, it only further compounds existing vulnerabilities of oppressions, marginalisations and criminalisations. In this podcast, Rae and Pri take a deep dive into the various ways of understanding disability and race in America where people with disabilities, particularly black people, people of colour, queer and trans folx are marginalized. The podcast traces the dyslexia to prison pipeline by interrogating the label of disability—how this label is formed and framed within the normal-abnormal, able-disabled, general-special dialectic of white supremacy, the racialised construction and manifestation of such labelling, and the systemic performance of these labels.
Disciplines
Disability and Equity in Education | Disability Law | Law and Race | Race and Ethnicity
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Center/Program
Studio for Law and Culture
Recommended Citation
Walters, Reakash; Agarwal, Nikita; Radhakrishnan, Priyanka; Baraka, Ameer; and Stovall, David, "CRT2 S3 Ep1: Racial Literacy and Disability: The Dyslexia to Prison Pipeline" (2024). CRT2 Season 3. 1.
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/crt2_3/1
Episode Details
Length: 39:36
Featuring:
Ameer Baraka is a formerly incarcerated Emmy nominated actor and Dyslexia Advocate.
Dr. David Stovall is a Professor at the University of Chcago, Illinois.