By placing Black children in disability specific classrooms under the label of uneducable Oakland Public Schools made a space where disability was racialized, due to uneducable being used to make receiving a lack of culturally competent education into a disability, and how racialization can be disabiling since placing Black students in an underfunded education environment (the disability specific classrooms) caused them to fall behind their peers because of the lack of resources.

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The BPP understood the label of uneducable as inherently a racist interpretation of Black children's communications, and behaviors at school. At the time the label of uneducable was used to separate poor and racialized students into underfunded classrooms for disabled students.

BPP Conception of the Term 'Uneducable'

The theory of Black Disability Politics refers to disability politics expressed through text, speech, ideological platforms, or activist work by Black cultural workers (individuals whose work directly responds to and influences culture). It encompasses how Black individuals engage in Disability Justice and Disability Politics, and it can be understood as an integral intersection of both the Disability Justice movement and the Black liberation movement.

Theory of Black Disability Politics

Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027003

Black Disability Politics

1. Intersectional but Race Centered
2. Not Necessarily Based in Disability Identity
3. Contextualized and Historicized
4. Holistic

Four Common Qualities of Black Disability Politics

- What was the Black Panther Party?
- Views of the Black Panther Party in early and later years?
- "The Black Panther" - The Black Panther Party
- The 504 Sit-In
- Oakland Community School
-Mental and Carceral Institutions

The Black Panther Part as an Example of Black Disability Politics

- Oakland Community School Pedagogy
- Ericka Huggins, Oakland Community School director

Oakland Community School as a Site of Black Disability Politics

- The History of the National Black Women's Health Project
- Black Feminist Health Activism

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