Race, Ethnicity and Disability: Charting Complex and Intersectional Terrains

Stienstra, Deborah; Nyerere, Leon

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42488-0_16

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“…The concept of intersectionality can help explain the compounding nature of how multiple identities and inequities intersect and compound over time (Cramer & Plummer, 2009;Stienstra & Nyerere, 2016).Identities associated with race, class, gender, indigeneity and disability intersect as multiple forms of oppression (Gillborn, 2015). Gillborn argued that to gain a critical understanding of intersectionality, it is important to appreciate how race interacts with other forms of oppression at different times and in different circumstances.…”

Section: Importance Of An Indigenous Disability Perspectivementioning

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“…Indigenous disabled persons have experiences and challenges that non-Indigenous persons do not, related to the impacts of ongoing colonisation and the contemporary influences of multiple intersecting forms of oppression, including discrimination arising from racism (King, Brough, & Knox, 2014;Stienstra & Nyerere, 2016). King et al (2014) maintain that colonising experiences created Indigenous people's disablement, something perpetuated by the dominant culture.…”

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Whānau hauā: Reframing disability from an Indigenous perspective

Hickey¹,

Wilson²

2017

MAI Journal

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Mäori directly or indirectly experience disability at a higher rate than any other population group in Aotearoa New Zealand. Despite one in three Mäori having some form of disability, Mäori have less access to support and health and disability services. Currently, gaps exist in knowledge related to Mäori and disability, and this is not helped by disabled Mäori being excluded from health and disability policy and service planning forums. With regard to disability frameworks, the medical model and the social model are the predominant northern hemisphere approaches to working with disabled persons. These models view disability in an individualised manner that is not relevant for many Indigenous disabled persons whose worldview is holistic, relational and collective in nature. In this paper, we critically examine current approaches to working with disabled Mäori and their experiences as Indigenous disabled persons before presenting Whänau Hauä as an alternative Indigenous approach to disability.

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Section: Importance Of An Indigenous Disability Perspectivementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Whānau hauā: Reframing disability from an Indigenous perspective

Hickey¹,

Wilson²

2017

MAI Journal

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“…In the United Kingdom, it has been used to explore the ways Black middle-class parents struggle to prevent or access special education for their children (Rollock, Gillborn, Vincent, & Ball, 2014). DisCrit has informed analyses of racism and ableism that are complicated by legacies of colonialism and globalization in the global south (Stienstra & Nyerere, 2016), by poverty in indigenous communities in Guatemala (Grech, 2016), and special education placement in Canada (Adjei, 2016). Finally, DisCrit has helped lay bare some of the contradictions between language and epistemological commitments, such as Leonardo’s (2015) reconsideration of discussing Whiteness as racial dyslexia.…”

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Disability Critical Race Theory: Exploring the Intersectional Lineage, Emergence, and Potential Futures of DisCrit in Education

Annamma

Ferri²,

Connor

2018

Review of Research in Education

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In this review, we explore how intersectionality has been engaged with through the lens of disability critical race theory (DisCrit) to produce new knowledge. In this chapter, we (1) trace the intellectual lineage for developing DisCrit, (2) review the body of interdisciplinary scholarship incorporating DisCrit to date, and (3) propose the future trajectories of DisCrit, noting challenges and tensions that have arisen. Providing new opportunities to investigate how patterns of oppression uniquely intersect to target students at the margins of Whiteness and ability, DisCrit has been taken up by scholars to expose and dismantle entrenched inequities in education. I n 2016, Bresha Meadows, a 14-year-old Black girl, killed her father following years of abuse inflicted on her family. 1 Reporter Melissa Jeltsen (2017) wrote of Meadows's case: According to Bresha's family, the young girl had started to fall apart in the months leading up to the shooting. Her grades plummeted. She began cutting herself. And she ran away, telling her aunts in Cleveland that she was afraid her father might kill them all. He beat her mother in front of her, she said, and threatened them with a gun. She said she was scared for their lives. (Para 9) Although the average pretrial length of detention is 22 days (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Program, 2013), by May of 2017, Bresha had been incarcerated for over 250 days and labeled 2 with posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. Bresha's story is not only about racial or gender-related violence but also about 759041R REXXX10.

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“…In recent years, ethnicity has gained more attention in disability research. Internationally, disability research has been criticised for being blind to differences between various ethnic groups in terms of the experiences and consequences of having a disability (Stienstra & Nyerere 2016, Block et al 2001. Several empirical contributions have more recently emerged on the situation for people with disabilities in different ethnic groups (see, for instance, Stienstra & Nyerere 2016; Warner & Brown 2011).…”

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“…Professionals supposed that his hearing impairment would make it impossible for him to become bilingual. Others of various ethnic minority groups (Imperatori 2009;Ostad 2006;Stienstra 2012Stienstra , 2016 share such experiences. However, whilst other ethnic minorities with impairments may have difficulties learning the language of the country where they have relocated (Statskontoret 2009), in Norway, the Sami language has a different status than the native languages of immigrants.…”

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Culturalisation, Homogenisation, Assimilation? Intersectional Perspectives on the Life Experiences of Sami People with Disabilities

Fylling

Melbøe

2019

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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Sami people experience a wide range of challenges in their dealings with health and social services (Blix 2016). However, little is known so far about the circumstances for disabled people of a Sami background (Huuva 2014). Since previous research has shown that people with disabilities have poorer living conditions and fewer opportunities for social participation than the general population (Kittelsaa, Wik & Tøssebro 2015; Söderström & Tøssebro 2011), it would be reasonable to assume that disabled people of a Sami background may risk marginalisation along both dimensions or have a 'double disadvantage' (Wehmeyer 2007). Through narrative analysis of interviews with disabled Sami people, we discuss marginalisation processes faced by this category in their dealings with welfare services. We argue that research based on experiences from ethnic minorities are not sufficient analytical tools to understand the experiences of the Sami people. Rather than experiencing culturalisation (Fuentes 2015), disabled people of a Sami background still experience assimilation mechanisms when communicating with welfare services.

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Race, Ethnicity and Disability: Charting Complex and Intersectional Terrains

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

Whānau hauā: Reframing disability from an Indigenous perspective

Whānau hauā: Reframing disability from an Indigenous perspective

Disability Critical Race Theory: Exploring the Intersectional Lineage, Emergence, and Potential Futures of DisCrit in Education

Culturalisation, Homogenisation, Assimilation? Intersectional Perspectives on the Life Experiences of Sami People with Disabilities

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