Blackness is an axis of oppression. That's undeniable. Likewise disability. The question I was interested in was: Do they compound?
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In other words, is being black and disabled intrinsically worse than the difficulties associated with the two markers separately?
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Questions like this are really hard to pin down! But if you don't try to quantify, all you have are anecdotes.
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By looking at the numbers, we find two interesting facts: 1) There seems to be no _institutional_ disadvantage, at the level of state aid.
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...but 2) Black people are 30% more likely to be disabled. Which is _odd_. If you use the structural racism argument, you have to posit...
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...that there's a structure that's producing excess black disability--which is horrific--but not one that biases the SSI rolls.
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@ce_murphy poverty? Environmental issues? Also have to look @ types of disability (acquired), savvyness w/system... -
I thought about looking at disability by type but it was hard enough finding the racial breakdown.
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