Black Studies

Books 

• Between fitness and death: Disability and slavery in the Caribbean 
• The resistance, persistence and resilience of Black families: Raising children with autism
• Black madness: Mad Blackness
• You are the best thing: Vulnerability, shame resilience and the Black experience 
• The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America
• Racism by another name: Black students, overrepresentation and the carceral state of special education

 Journals, Databases 

• Can be found on the disability studies and mad studies research guide page
• Disability Studies Research Projects - Thesis
  The DST 99 AB Applied Community Project/Thesis is a "capstone" course of the Disability Studies program. It is a two semester course providing students with the opportunity to engage in focused scholarly and project work from a disability studies perspective. The orienting question revolves around how social environments and structures shape the experience of people with disabilities.

 Black Canadian Disability Scholars (selected list)

• Jennelle Rouse - Black Deaf History/Culture, Black Disability Studies
• Agnès Berthelot-Raffard - Black Health Studies, Black Disability Studies. 
• Jheanelle Anderson - Disability activism and mental health support for newcomer women within the GTA. 
• Idil Abdillahi - Mad/ness; Blackened Sanisms/anti-Black Sanisms, Critical Black Feminisms/Gender Studies
• Laverne Jacobs - Founded and directs The Law, Disability and Social Change Project.