In her new book "Black Disability Politics", author Sami Schalk explores the often-overlooked intersection between racial justice and the disability rights movement—namely, how the Black civil rights movement has historically addressed disability rights issues differently than the mainstream, white-centered disability rights movement. On this edition of the Friday 8 O'Clock Buzz, Dr. Schalk talks with host Andy Moore about her book's origins, her writing process and what she hopes readers will take away from the experience.

Dr. Sami Schalk is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at UW-Madison. Her studies focus on the interactions between gender, race and disability in contemporary American culture. "Black Disability Politics" is her second book, her first being "Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction."