Disability and Race

 Mental Health Treatment Provided Amongst Different Races By: Nicole Harrison         Mental health treatment is less accessible for black members of the  community compared to white members of the community. This  makes it less likely for people of color who are struggling with mental  health issues to reach out for help or treatment.  Why This Matters     This issue is important because such a large portion of our population suffers from mental illnesses. A majority of that population are those of color. These people are not receiving enough or proper treatment for their mental illnesses. Changes need to be made in order to resolve this problem and to provide proper treatment to these patients.    Stigma Towards Mental Health Treatment Negative attitudes that are held towards mental health.  Stigmas are more likely towards those of color with mental health illnesses (Crowe, 2020).    Men are viewed as “weak” if they seek treatment, women view treatment in a more positive way.  Those

  Disability and Racial Segregation in the Special Education System: from the 1900s to Now By: Kate Loughran Works Cited 

The Effect of Race and Disability on Sports Playlist  My topic is the effect of physical and intellectual disability on accessibility of sports. I chose this topic because I'm an athlete myself and was interested in learning more about the relationship between sports and disability, specifically pertaining to the Paralympics. I was also interested in this topic because my older brother, Patrick, has an intellectual disability and used to swim for our local swim team so I wanted to explore the effect on a higher level of sports. I connected this topic to these songs because when I listened to them, they reminded me of the information I researched so I wrote exactly how each song made me feel and how it related to my topic in the explanation paragraph beside each song.  Rise up - Andra Day: In this song, she talks about rising up in spite of the pain and fear that might keep one from taking a risk in order to achieve a goal; This relates to my topic because in my annotated bibliogra

  Introduction       Hello, my name is Kallie Parrish.  This blog entry discusses intersectional discrimination in education. It is intersectional because ableism and racism combine to form huge discrimination. Listed below are sources that examine this intersectional educational discrimination from the perspectives of people who belong to different ethnicities and range in disability status. I am personally invested in this topic because I am a disabled woman in college. I have not faced much racism since I am white, but I have faced some discrimination in school due to my hearing loss. I am majoring in Public Health at Roanoke College, but I have always had a passion for advocating for disabled people since I am part of the community and see things differently than someone who is not disabled would.                                              *Creative Commons license Siuty and Atwood Sarah, a Black teacher of disabled students, performed transforming teacher resistance by reflect

Race and PTSD in Media Introduction      This page serves as the catalog for my Creative Social Action Project (CSAP), which focuses on the representation of PTSD in media (real with newspapers and fictitious with movies) and how race affects said representation. The intended audience is the general American public, preferably those without much exposure to veterans or service members with PTSD. This page contains a fictional short story demonstrating how damaging inaccurate and/or unnecessarily negative media portrayals are to those suffering with PTSD, shown through an ever-shifting viewpoint of the single-entity Veteran. Beyond this page, the short story will also be shared on Wattpad, a free publishing website for independent writers, where it can shared with readers and found by hashtags. This method of displaying my research plays off of PTSD representation in film – I'm using a form of fiction to display what I've found recurrent in fiction; Someone looking for a more co