Lecture at Temple University: "Unspeakable Offenses: Untangling Race and Disability in Discourses of Intersectionality"

Institute on Disabilities at Temple University Presents:
“Unspeakable Offenses: Untangling Race and Disability in Discourses of Intersectionality"

Nirmala Erevelles
Associate Professor of Education & Instructional Leadership inEducational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies
University of Alabama

Wednesday, November 19
Noon - 1:30 p.m.
President’s Conference Suite, 1810 Liacouras Walk
Temple University Philadelphia, PA

The omission of race in Disability Studies and disability from Critical Race Studies has disastrous consequences for disabled people of color caught in the violent interstices of multiple differences. Learn about a 13 year old African American girl who is functionally illiterate and her mother’s combat with an uncaring Special Education bureaucracy that threatens to expel the girl from middle school.

This lecture is part of our series “The Geo-Politics of Disability.” Spring lectures will be: January 28, 2009 - Nicole Markotic - University of Windsor February 18, 2009 - Michael Bérubé - Penn State University March 18, 2009 - Jim Charlton - University of Illinois at Chicago April 15, 2009 - Adrienne Asch - Wellesley College

For information & accommodations:
Brian Zimmerman
215-204-1356
brian.zimmerman@temple.edu
www.disabilities.temple.edu

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be served.

h/t to Shelley Tremain, What Sorts of People