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From the Archive to the Table
The Anatomy of a System series is complete. Here's what's next: a new DisCrit cohort, a UK book club on special education, and a workshop for educators.
Jun 22•Alexandria Lockhart

The Anatomy of a System (Part 10) - Abolitionist Special Education
What comes after we let it break? We build for liberation.
Jun 18•Alexandria Lockhart

Sugar, Slavery, and the Making of London's Special Schools
How the logic of the plantation in the British West Indies crossed the ocean and landed in 1970s ESN schools in London
Jun 11•Alexandria Lockhart

The Anatomy of a System (Part 9) - The Global Connections
How the afterlife of slavery in special education is not an American story, but a global story written by colonial logic.
Jun 4•Alexandria Lockhart

The Anatomy of a System (Part 8) - The IEP as the New Slave Ledger
How the language of 'managing' enslaved bodies persists in the language of 'behavior management' plans, making the IEP the first page in the…
May 21•Alexandria Lockhart

Recent posts

The Anatomy of a System (Part 7) - The Funding Formula
How a diagnosis generates revenue, and a child becomes a line item in a school's budget.
May 7•Alexandria Lockhart

Book Review: How the West Indian Child Is Made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System
In April 2023, as a graduate student in a DisCrit course, I wrote a book review of Coard's ‘How the West Indian Child Is Made Educationally Subnormal…
May 6•Alexandria Lockhart

The Anatomy of a System (Part 6) - The Invention of “Emotional Disturbance”
How a psychologist’s checklist for helping children became a trapdoor for Black students in American schools.
Apr 23•Alexandria Lockhart

The Anatomy of a System (Part 5): The Burning Schoolhouse
How Brown v. Board opened school doors, but hostile integration became a disabling environment.
Apr 9•Alexandria Lockhart

Between the Lines: A Conversation
A pause, a question, and some resources for the road.
Apr 2•Alexandria Lockhart

The Anatomy of a System (Part 4) - The Architecture of Exclusion
How the asylum’s architecture of segregation became the blueprint for the “special” school.

Unseen Wounds: The Transatlantic Misidentification of Black Children's Trauma as Disability and Why Reform Is Not Enough
From the archives: A paper I wrote inside the system I was part of
Mar 19•Alexandria Lockhart

The Anatomy of a System (Part 3) - The New Science of Sorting
Eugenics, IQ Tests, and the Invention of "Feeble-Mindedness
Mar 12•Alexandria Lockhart

Segregation: School Psychologists as Gatekeepers
Hello, and happy Sunday!
Mar 1•Alexandria Lockhart