Table of Contents:
  • Who are the unteachables? : a genealogy of race, retardation, and intelligence
  • The road from mental retardation : civil rights, disability rights, and equal educational opportunity
  • Disabling Black poverty, supporting White underachievement : race and the construction of federal special education policy
  • Challenging special education from above and below : contestations of the 1970s and 1980s
  • Emotional behavior disorder and other conduct problems : the intersection of race, research, and policy
  • The implications of unteachability : special education into the twenty-first century.