Jess’s Reviews > The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education > Status Update

SPED as containment (a way to keep "normal" white middle class students protected from everyone else), SPED as risk-management (everyone else is both at-risk and risky due to not being "normal" white middle classm

For white children with emotional/behavioral disturbances, the problem is identified as congenital or developmental at the personal/family level, not a problem of white culture. Compare that to how Black children with EBDs are discussed.

I typically hear people say that the disability rights movement came out of the civil rights movement but this seems to show that while it borrowed strategies, it was actually in conflict in terms of goals such as segregation

Psychology was a mistake, basically, and ed psych in particular.
Black kids who can't read at grade level = mental r-word
White kids who can't read at grade level = reading disability