Price situates crip-of-color critique as being central to the theorizing of crip spacetime because it works against white supremacy in disability studies that often theorizes ableism as separate from other axes of oppression. 

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Crip-of-Color Critique was coined by Jina Kim and Sami Schalk as a concept located at the nexus of feminist of color, queer of color, and disability studies theories. Crip-of-Color Critique is the idea that ableism is not just entwined with but is casually related to other axes of oppression including racism, classism, and sexism, and that there are counter-stories and counter-knowledges that are pushed back against ableism that are practiced and come from disabled, queer, low-income Black and brown communities.

Crip-of-Color Critique 

Disability Studies is often critiqued for being a discipline that has had success through the creation of journals, undergraduate and graduate programs and conferences but often does not address imminent violence to disabled individuals outside of academia. Additionally, marginalized scholars have criticized Disability Studies for focusing mainly on the perspective of the economically productive white disabled person. 

Disciplinary Development of Disability Studies

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

Crip Spacetime

Kim and Schalk point out how ableist ways of valuing people around dependency, laziness, and work ethic have been leveraged against Black Americans and serve as the same values we see coming up in anti-Black rhetoric around individuals on welfare, low-income Black communities, and around modern conservative rhetoric around affirmative action.
Kim and Schalk point out that there are counters to this valuing - for instance Tricia Hersey's work around rest as a form of resistance to White Supremacy.

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