ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by exploring disability critical race theory's (DisCrit's) intellectual lineage, rooted in Black feminism, and then situating within disability studies and critical race theory. It explores the growth of DisCrit, crossing disciplinary borders to further animate intersectional work related to race and disability. The chapter highlights the necessity of DisCrit through real world cases of police brutality and extrajudicial killings of disabled people of colour. DisCrit is an intersectional theoretical framework integrating disability studies and critical race theory. DisCrit also accounts for the complex histories in which racially 'othered' bodies are marked as physically, psychologically or morally deficient, a status further codified through scientific racism. Emerging scholars have also drawn on DisCrit in their work in dissertations, research projects and professional conferences. Intersectionality thus serves both as the impetus for DisCrit as well as a necessary corrective to what Chris Bell rightly names White disability studies.
