Disability Silo

THE DISABILITY SILO

RUTH COLKER

Abstract

This Article seeks to apply a disability justice framework to considering issues of affirmative action across many different statutes. The central argument is that a siloed understanding of affirmative action—one that treats race and disability as distinct—fails to recognize the deep interconnections among statutes that ban various kinds of discrimination. Abandoning the disability silo can help make broader claims for both racial and disability justice

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