Contents
Note on Terminology
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Who Are the Unteachables? A Genealogy of Race, Retardation, and Intelligence
2. The Road from Mental Retardation: Civil Rights, Disability Rights, and Equal Educational Opportunity
3. Disabling Black Poverty, Supporting White Underachievement: Race and the Construction of Federal Special Education Policy
4. Challenging Special Education from Above and Below: Contestations of the 1970s and 1980s
5. Emotional Behavior Disorder and Other Conduct Problems: The Intersection of Race, Research, and Policy
6. The Implications of Unteachability: Special Education into the Twenty-First Century
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Policy Summaries
Notes
Index