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71 Syracuse L. Rev. 683 (2021)
Centering Disability Justice

handle is hein.journals/syrlr71 and id is 707 raw text is: CENTERING DISABILITY JUSTICE Natalie M. Chint TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT.................................................................................... 684 INTRODUCTION............................................................................. 685 I. RACE & THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DISABILITY ........... 695 A. An Historical Examination of the Racialization of Disability & the Pathologizing of Race ........................ 695 1. Enslavement ........................................................... 697 2. Eugenics.................................................................700 B. Critiquing the White Disability Rights Narrative.......... 705 1. A Brief History of the White Single-Issue Narrative in Disability Rights Framing................................... 705 2. Disability Critical Theory....................................... 713 II. THE EMERGENCE OF DISABILITY JUSTICE ............................ 715 III. REVOLVING INEQUITIES: BLACKNESS, DISABILITY, & THE ADA DEFERRED ................................................................. 717 A. The Eugenics Pipeline ................................................. 719 B. The Eugenics Pipeline: A Year In Review .................... 720 1. E ducation ...............................................................72 1 A. Judge Rotenberg Educational Center ............... 721 B. The Georgia Network for Education & Therapeutic Support Program........................... 726 2. Deaf/Disabled Incarcerated Individuals ................. 728 3. Health Care............................................................ 730 4. Police Violence & Carceral Spaces ........................ 732 5. Covid-19............................................................ 733 C. Why a Racism/Ableism Consciousness Centered in Disability Justice Matters in a Disability Rights Future 736 IV. CENTERING DISABILITY JUSTICE ......................................... 738 t Associate Professor Law and Co-Director of the Disability and Aging Justice Clinic at CUNY School of Law; J.D., George Washington University Law School B.S., Boston University. The author thanks Doron Dorfman, Jamelia Morgan, Amy Mulzer, Prianka Nair, Jason Parkin, Leslie Salzman, and my colleagues at the Professional Development Committee Forum at CUNY School of Law for their generous and thoughtful feedback. A special thank you to the many participants of the Maine Law School Colloquium, the AALS Disability Law Section, the Southeastern Association of Law School, and the Lutie Lytle Black Women Law Faculty works-in-progress workshops for their support, guidance, and comments on various drafts of this article. Deep gratitude to my illustrious research assistants, Danielle Leake, Christian Rodriguez, and Roxanne Zech and to the editors of the Syracuse Law Review.