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This book presents innovative insights highlighting the voices of children with disabilities as they navigate through complex issues of diversity and share how these impact their understandings and experiences of school inclusion and exclusion. The author advocates inviting the voices of children with intersecting differences into educational conversations and research processes, as they may adeptly advance areas of inclusion and diversity.

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Provides a much needed addition to the body of Canadian literature on inclusive education and experiences of disability for young people. The book examines race and ethnicity as a central identity interconnected with disability. Ajodhia-Andrews uses first person accounts of what it means to be a disabled and racialized youth in Canada. The growing body of DisCrit (cite) literature globally is changing the way in which we understand the complexity of disability identities. DisCrit theory is advancing both Critical Disability Studies, and Critical Race Theory, and forging a new way of understanding and theorizing human experience. Ajodhia-Andrews adds to this field through documentation of young people's perspectives. The young people in Ajodhia-Andrews book communicate through poetry, photography, word maps, and narrative. The complex explanations of identity, difference, disability, and experiences in school are extremely compelling. These accounts are refreshing, honest, and realistic in the portrayal of what it means to belong. -Kathryn Underwood, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies, Ryerson University

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