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This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship.

In this essay, I offer tentative ruminations about the possibilities/challenges of theory and praxis in the field of disability studies. I begin the essay by thinking through my own positionality as a non-disabled woman of color scholar/ally in the field. Cautiously situating myself in a location of outsider-within (Hill-Collins,1998), I explore how disability studies is disruptive of any boundaries that claim to police distinctions between disabled/non-disabled subject positions. Noting the dangers of claiming that everyone is disabled at some historical moment, I propose instead a relational analysis to engage the materiality of disability at the intersections of race, class, gender, nation, and sexual identity within specific historical contexts and discuss the complicated impasses that continue to plague disability studies at these intersections. I conclude the essay by recognizing the labor of scholar/activists in the field who call for a committed politics of accountability and access via disability justice. Keywords: disability studies, historical materialism, identity politics and intersectionality, disability justice, politics of accountability/allyship

Giorgio Agamben describes the "camp" as the "zone of indistinction between law and violence" where bodies located in exceptional spaces are stripped of citizenship rights and embody "bare life." We deploy Agamben's analysis to the context of the everyday violence of aversive technologies meted out against students living at the dangerous intersections of race, class, gender, and disability and located in unexpected spaces of confinement such as schools, developmental centers, and family homes. We argue here that the logic of the "state of exception" applies to disabled children and adults where acts of violence enacted via disciplinary practices are justified as being outside the realm of the legal and subject to sovereign power. The locus of our study is the Judge Rothenberg Center that over the past 40 years has utilized behavioral techniques that have been investigated as abusive and only very recently has been held accountable for these infractions. We examine the discourses used to justify these forms of inhumane punishment as well as the discourses that oppose them to foreground the real material implications of "how we understand the role of systems and institutions of punishment" in unexpected spaces of confinement of children/adults with intellectual disabilities.

Difficulties in translating innovations that have been validated by researchers into practices that will be used by practitioners are widely acknowledged. Nevertheless, research on systems change is sparse and teachers are seldom asked for their perspectives on the implementation of innovations. Special education teachers (n = 83) from five states in regions known for their efforts to develop quality educational programs for students with severe disabilities were surveyed for their knowledge and skills, the actual presence of quality indicators in their programs, and difficulties they experience in implementing various most promising practices. The results indicate that the self-reported ratings of the presence of the indicators is correlated with both teacher skill and degree of implementation difficulty. Analyses of teachers' comments to an open-ended question reveal common concerns regarding time constraints and administrative support as major obstacles to implementation. The results are discussed in the context of the nature of education as an applied science, the need for a research-to-practice literature on the implementation process for practitioners, and the need to acknowledge explicitly the support variables present in research on educational innovations that may be essential to implementation in practice.

"While there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a range of subjects. Beginning with Disability is the first introductory reader for disability studies aimed at first- and second-year students in two- and four-year colleges"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Reconceptualizing Antiviolence Strategies -- 1 Rethinking Antiviolence Strategies -- 2 Disability in the New World Order -- 3 Federal Indian Law and Violent Crime -- 4 Feminism, Race, and Adoption Policy -- 5 The Color of Choice -- 6 Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy -- 7 A Call for Consistency -- II. Forms of Violence -- 8 The Color of Violence -- 9 Four Generations in Resistance -- 10 The War to Be Human / Becoming Human in a Time of War -- 11 The Forgotten "-ismn -- 12 Reflections in a Time of War -- 13 Don't Liberate Me -- 14 "National Securitys and the Violation of Women -- 15 The Complexities of "Feminicide" on the Border -- 16 INS Raids and How Immigrant Women are Fighting Back -- 17 Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color -- 18 Crime, Punishment, and Economic Violence -- 19 Pomo Woman, Ex-Prisoner, Speaks Out -- 20 The War Against Black Women, and the Making of NO! -- 21 Medical Violence Against People of Color and the Medicalization of Domestic Violence -- III. Building Movement -- 22 Unite and Rebel! -- 23 Sistas Makin' Moves -- 24 Disloyal to Feminism -- 25 Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex -- 26 Trans Action for Social and Economic Justice -- 27 "The Personal is the Private is the Cultural" -- 28 An Antiracist Christian Ethical Approach to Violence Resistance -- 29 Taking Risks -- 30 poem on trying to love without fear -- Endnotes and Works Cited -- Index -- About the Contributors

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: A SIGHT LINE -- I. The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights -- ONE. "As Though It Were Our Own": Against a Politics of Identification -- TWO. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black-White Binary -- THREE. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalization -- FOUR. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State -- FIVE. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization -- SIX. Critical Contradictions: A Conversation among Glen Coulthard, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See -- II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University -- SEVEN . A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education -- EIGHT. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What "We Are All Palestinians" Really Means -- NINE. Restructuring, Resistance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University -- TEN. "The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety": On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity -- ELEVEN. Subjugated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing -- III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital -- TWELVE. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin' Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery -- THIRTEEN. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung's Creative Modalities of Resignification -- FOURTEEN. Indra Sinha's Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Violence of Uneven Development in Animal's People -- FIFTEEN. Cocoa Chandelier's Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Performance and Aloha in Drag -- IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity -- SIXTEEN. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention -- SEVENTEEN. Of "Mates" and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941-1943 -- EIGHTEEN. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, "Illegal" Possibilities, and Globalizing Migrant Life -- NINETEEN. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain -- TWENTY. Empire's Verticality: The Af-Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above -- V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures -- TWENTY-ONE. Decolonization, "Race," and Remaindered Life under Empire -- TWENTY-TWO. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence -- TWENTY-THREE. Césaire's Gift and the Decolonial Turn -- TWENTY-FOUR. Checkered Choices, Political Assertions: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La Asociación Nacional México-Americana -- TWENTY-FIVE. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability StudiesKeywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, post-traumatic stress, and questions about the beginning and end of life.Each of the 60 essays in Keywords for Disability Studies focuses on a distinct critical concept, including "ethics," "medicalization," "performance," "reproduction," "identity," and "stigma," among others. Although the essays recognize that "disability" is often used as an umbrella term, the contributors to the volume avoid treating individual disabilities as keywords, and instead interrogate concepts that encompass different components of the social and bodily experience of disability. The essays approach disability as an embodied condition, a mutable historical phenomenon, and a social, political, and cultural identity.An invaluable resource for students and scholars alike, Keywords for Disability Studies brings the debates that have often remained internal to disability studies into a wider field of critical discourse, providing opportunities for fresh theoretical considerations of the field's core presuppositions through a variety of disciplinary perspectives.Visit keywords.nyupress.org for online essays, teaching resources, and more