Schalk argues that while the NBWHP names in their health book Body and Soil that Black people are more likely to be rejected for disability benefits like Social Security, by not mentioning the ADA or who is covered under it the NBWHP did not give individuals the full knowledge of the resources available to them to fight for access to legal benefits and legally challenge discrimination.

Schalk's Critique of the NBWHP's Avoidance of the ADA

While the NBWHP established their Public Education and Policy Office in Washington D,C, in 1990 the NBWHP did not have an active involvement with the passage of the ADA. The legislation's passage was not covered in Vital Signs until four years after the legislation went into effect. 

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At the start of the book Schalk defined Black disability politics as a political approach that is interactional but race centered, did not need to be based in disability identity, contexualized and historicized, and holistic. But when does not being based in disability identity turn from an asset that allows Black people to engage in disability without their vocies being stiffled by White Disability Rights activists to a failure to engage with disability rights and disability identity? This is the question Schalk poses in the later third of this book.

So what about explicit mentions of disability?

Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027003

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