https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X18759041 Review of Research in Education March 2018, Vol. 42, pp. 46–71 DOI: 10.3102/0091732X18759041 © 2018 AERA. http://rre.aera.net 46 Chapter 3 Disability Critical Race Theory: Exploring the Intersectional Lineage, Emergence, and Potential Futures of DisCrit in Education SUBINI ANCY ANNAMMA University of Kansas BETH A. FERRI Syracuse University DAVID J. CONNOR Hunter College, City University of New York In this review, we explore how intersectionality has been engaged with through the lens of disability critical race theory (DisCrit) to produce new knowledge. In this chapter, we (1) trace the intellectual lineage for developing DisCrit, (2) review the body of interdisciplinary scholarship incorporating DisCrit to date, and (3) propose the future trajectories of DisCrit, noting challenges and tensions that have arisen. Providing new opportunities to investigate how patterns of oppression uniquely intersect to target students at the margins of Whiteness and ability, DisCrit has been taken up by scholars to expose and dismantle entrenched inequities in education. I n 2016, Bresha Meadows, a 14-year-old Black girl, killed her father following years of abuse inflicted on her family. 1 Reporter Melissa Jeltsen (2017) wrote of Meadows’s case: According to Bresha’s family, the young girl had started to fall apart in the months leading up to the shooting. Her grades plummeted. She began cutting herself. And she ran away, telling her aunts in Cleveland that she was afraid her father might kill them all. He beat her mother in front of her, she said, and threatened them with a gun. She said she was scared for their lives. (Para 9) Although the average pretrial length of detention is 22 days (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Program, 2013), by May of 2017, Bresha had been incarcerated for over 250 days and labeled 2 with posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. Bresha’s story is not only about racial or gender-related violence but also about 759041RRE XX X 10.3102/0091732X18759041Review of Research in EducationAnnamma et al.: DisCrit: Intersectional Lineage, Emergence, and Futures research-article 2018