The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education
Keith A. Mayes
University of Minnesota Press
The Unteachables examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the 20th century. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system and public policy, it explores the discriminatory labeling of Black students, and how it indelibly contributed to special education disproportionality, to student discipline and push-out practices, and to the school-to-prison pipeline effect.