Urban Narratives
Subtitle: Portraits in Progress--Life at the Intersections of Learning Disability, Race, and Social Class (Disability Studies in Education)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang
Published: November 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780820488042
Subjects: Special Education - General; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Sociology - General; Social Science; Education / Teaching; Education; Inclusive education; Learning disabled children; Segregation in education; United States; Sociology
Description: "Urban Narratives foregrounds previously silenced voices of young people of color who are labeled disabled. Overrepresented in special education classes, yet underrepresented in educational research, these students - the largest group within segregated special education classes - share their perceptions of the world and their place within it. Eight 'portraits in progress' consisting of their own words and framed by their poetry and drawings, reveal insights about life inside and out of the American urban education system.

The book uses an intersectional analysis to examine how power circulates in society throughout and among historical cultural, institutional, and interpersonal domains, impacting social, academic, and economic opportunities for individuals, and expanding or circumscribing their worlds."--Jacket.