Racism by Another Name

<p><em>Racism by Another Name: Black Students Overrepresentation and the Carceral State of Special Education</em> is a thought-provoking and timely book that provides a landscape for understanding and challenging educational (in)opportunities for Black students who are identified for special education. This book provides a historical and contemporary analysis through the eyes of Black children and their families on how they navigate and push against inequitable schooling ways they are reframing discourse about race dis/ability and gender in schools how educators administrators and school counselors contribute to disproportionality in special education and ways that parents are collectively organizing to dismantle injustices and the carceral state or criminalization of special education.</p><p> </p><p>Each chapter provides a ground level view of what Black students with dis/abilities experience in the classroom and examines how the intersection of race dis/abilty and gender subject Black students to dehumanizing experiences in school. This book includes qualitative and quantitative approaches to exploring the material realities of Black students who are isolated whether in separate or general education classrooms. Drawing from Critical Race Theory DisCrit Critical Race Feminism and other race-centered frameworks this book challenges dominant norms of schools that reinforce inequality and racial segregation in special education.</p><p> </p><p>At the end of each chapter the authors present practitioner-based notes and resources for readers to expand their knowledge of how Black students their family and guardians advocate for themselves and their own children. This book will leave educational advocates for Black children with a clearer understanding of the obstacles and successes that they encounter when striving for a just and equitable education. Furthermore the book challenges readers to be active agents of change in their own schools and communities.</p>