ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the tenets of Dis/ability Critical Race (DisCrit), calling attention to its potential value as well as elucidate some tensions, cautions, and current limitations within DisCrit. Du Bois chronicled what is now widely recognized as a continued attempt throughout history to “prove” people of African descent possessed limited intelligence and were therefore not quite fully human. A DisCrit theory in education is a framework that theorizes about the ways in which race, racism, dis/ability, and ableism are built into the interactions, procedures, discourses, and institutions of education, which affect students of color with dis/abilities qualitatively differently than white students with dis/abilities. DisCrit emphasizes multidimensional identities rather than singular notions of identity, such as race, dis/ability, social class, or gender. DisCrit supports activism and promotes diverse forms of resistance.
