The Pedagogy of Pathologization

WINNER OF THE 2019 AESA CRITICS' CHOICE BOOK AWARD

WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION ALISON PIEPMEIER BOOK PRIZE

Linking powerful first-person narratives with structural analysis, The Pedagogy of Pathologization explores the construction of criminal identities in schools via the intersections of race, disability, and gender amid the prevalence of targeted mass incarceration. Focusing uniquely on the pathologization of female students of color, whose voices are frequently engulfed by labels of deviance and disability, a distinct and underrepresented experience of the school-to-prison pipeline is detailed through original qualitative methods rooted in authentic narratives. The book’s DisCrit framework, grounded in interdisciplinary research, draws on scholarship from critical race theory, disability studies, education, women’s and girl’s studies, legal studies, and more.

Subini Ancy Annamma, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Kansas, USA. She was recently awarded the 2017 American Education Research Association (AERA) Division G Early Career Award and the Western Social Science Association (WSSA) Outstanding Emerging Scholar Award. She is a past winner of the AERA Dissertation Minority Fellowship in Education Research Award, former Co-Program Chair for the 2016 annual conference of the Critical Race Studies Association in Education, and is the co-editor of two books.