ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how and to what extent Critical Youth Studies (CYS) and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) data collection methods have accounted for the troubling entanglement of racism and ableism that manifest in schools and society. We review influential volumes and individual examples of CYS, including YPAR, asking “Who counts?” given the role of research-related violence, sterilization, and institutionalization of youth with disabilities throughout history, and who are disproportionately youth of color. We find several promising data collection methods; however, the number of CYS/YPAR studies attending to disability at the intersection of race are relatively few, and of those that do attend to these connections, most interpret disability only as something “being done to” students rather than simultaneously consider disability as an important social location and affiliation. Drawing from reviewed studies, we close with practical considerations for CYS/YPAR data collection methods with youth at the intersection of race and disability.
