It’s interesting looking at Gloria Ladson-Billings when she realized that she had to add youth culture inside of educational settings that led to her including Hip-Hop pedagogy that I agree with however the latest push to expand the above in special education and reaching disabled students especially Black disabled students, I don’t see authors and theories include Disability Culture.

I think one of the reasons why I’m not seeing disability culture mentioned are 1) Disability culture is new 2) If we take what the late Christopher Bell’s 2006 essay, “Introducing White Disability Studies: A Modest Proposal” we can come to the conclusion that not only Disability Studies is white but to expand it to say only recently Black disabled activists/scholars/artists are coming out to define what can be Black Disability Culture.

So I want to add to Gloria Ladson-Billings to include Disability Culture and the new evolving Black Disability Culture especially under Krip-Hop Nation. With this new connection of youth, Hip-Hop and Disability/Black Disability Cultures then we can reach Black disabled youth inside and outside of institutional education settings but we need to first decolonize our mindset on disability, secondly Disability Studies has to deal with what Bell brought up twenty years ago and lastly Hip-Hop as a culture, an industry and an international movement needs to have that long awaited conversation/conference with the disability community worldwide.