{"product_id":"the-unteachables-disability-rights-and-the-invention-of-black-special-education-hardback-9781517910266","title":"The Unteachables; Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education (Hardback) 9781517910266","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Unteachables\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDisability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKeith A. Mayes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517910266\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 January 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 3 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Unteachables\u003c\/i\u003e offers a bold, highly insightful, and meticulously documented analysis of the racist underpinnings of special education. Keith A. Mayes shows how special education grew from white attempts to ‘protect’ white children from a racially integrated education. Drawing on his extensive background in African American history, Mayes brilliantly peels back the layers of an education system that purports to advance rights, even while it thwarts those of Black and Latinx students. \u003ci\u003eThe Unteachables\u003c\/i\u003e should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand how special education came to be structured as it is.\"-Christine Sleeter, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eTransformative Ethnic Studies in Schools: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As I read this brilliant and troubling book, I found myself nodding in agreement and grimacing in sadness. Prior scholarship on racial issues in special education has assumed that the underlying science of disability and the accompanying ideology of helpfulness are basically sound. In \u003ci\u003eThe Unteachables\u003c\/i\u003e, Keith A. Mayes shows how a distinctly American brand of racism was baked into the conceptual and practical foundations of special education from the very start.\"-Scot Danforth, Chapman University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schools\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unteachables\u003c\/i\u003e examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. As African American children integrated predominantly white schools, many were disproportionately labeled educable mentally retarded (EMR), learning disabled (LD), and emotionally behavioral disordered (EBD). Keith A. Mayes charts the evolution of disability categories and how these labels kept Black learners segregated in American classrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe civil rights and the educational disability rights movements, Mayes shows, have both collaborated and worked at cross-purposes since the beginning of school desegregation. Disability rights advocates built upon the opportunity provided by the civil rights movement to make claims about student invisibility at the level of intellectual and cognitive disabilities. Although special education ostensibly included children from all racial groups, educational disability rights advocates focused on the needs of white disabled students, while school systems used disability discourses to malign and marginalize Black students.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1940s to the present, social science researchers, policymakers, school administrators, and teachers have each contributed to the overrepresentation of Black students in special education. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system and public policy, \u003ci\u003eThe Unteachables\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619253186840,"sku":"9781517910266","price":95.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-unteachables-disability-rights-and-the-invention-of-black-special-education-hardback-9781517910266","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}