Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
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On the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school
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On the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school, she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school.
Monique W. Morris chronicles the experiences of Black girls across the country whose complex lives are misunderstood, highly judged—by teachers, administrators, and the justice system—and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish.
- Grades:
- K-12
- Author(s):
- Monique W. Morris
- Publisher:
- New Press
- Year:
- 304 pp
- Pages:
- 2018
- Media/Binding:
- Softcover
- iSBN:
- 9781620973424