Racial and Disability Identity

Abstract

Racial and disability identities are separate issues, yet they both contribute to the multiple social identities that influence career counseling outcomes for persons of color with disabilities. Few studies have examined the effects of racial and disability identity on the career outcomes of members of this group. This article discusses racial and disability identity as assets for career counseling of people of color with disabilities, whose career counseling outcomes are also mediated by the prevailing racial and disabilities disparities in career participation. Possibilities for further research on identities as resources for career counseling are also discussed.

Postsecondary Education Persistence of Adolescents With Specific Learning Disabilities or Emotional/Behavioral Disorders

“…Internal resilience factors include positive temperament, recognition of one’s disability, accommodation strategies, and knowledge of ways to be proactive and advocate for one’s self (Gregg, 2009; Murray, 2003). Disability identity may have a bearing on the career behavior of adolescents with disabilities by decreasing engagement with others (Mpofu & Harley, 2006). Other internal factors pertinent to educational persistence include an individual’s educational expectations and academic achievement (Murray, 2003).…”

El papel de la universidad en la construcción de sistemas educativos inclusivos. Dificultades, propuestas y desafíos

“…A través del desarrollo de la identidad, las personas con discapacidad negocian las deficiencias visibles o invisibles y los significados sociales que las personas sin discapacidad asignan a su discapacidad . La identidad saludable es crucial para la salud mental y física de las personas con discapacidad, y para desarrollar la capacidad y la fortaleza para abordar el capacitismo, reafirmando su crecimiento individual y personal (Campbell, 2008;Mpofu y Harley, 2006). Cuanto más fuerte sea la identificación de la identidad de la discapacidad, será menos probable que uno desee una cura (Hahn y Belt, 2004) y experimente depresión y ansiedad (Bogart, 2015).…”

Disability Identity Development Scale: A validation study among college students with disabilities.

“…Disability identity, or a sense of self that includes one’s disability and feelings of connection to, or solidarity with, the disability community (Darling, 2013; Dunn & Burcaw, 2013; Gill, 1997; Olkin & Pledger, 2003; Siebers, 2011) has gained increasing conceptual and empirical parity with other social identities. Squarely aligned with the disability justice movement that centers such principles as intersectionality, solidarity, interdependence, and collective access (Berne & Sins Invalid, n.d.), disability identity is a source of affirmation that fosters health and well-being, adjustment to disability, a strong sense of self, and a keen awareness of and protection against the ableist context to which disabled people exist (Campbell, 2008; Dunn & Burcaw, 2013; Forber-Pratt et al, 2017; Gill, 1997; Hahn & Belt, 2004; Mpofu & Harley, 2006). While disabled people often live with multiple intersecting identities (Axtell, 1999; Caldwell, 2011; Valeras, 2010; Whitney & Whitney, 2006), disability identity is a unique phenomenon, distinct from other aspects of identity, that shapes how disabled people view themselves and their connections with the world (Forber-Pratt & Zape, 2017; Forber-Pratt et al, 2020).…”