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Pushout : the criminalization of Black girls in schools
(based on Goodreads ratings)Published 2016 by The New Press, New York
ISBN 9781620970942
Bib Id 1950577
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9781620970942 hardcover $26.95
1620970945
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371.8299 M
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Pushout : the criminalization of Black girls in schools
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2016 by The New Press, New York :
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pages cm
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Includes bibliographical references.
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"Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day 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. Black girls represent 16 percent of female students but almost half of all girls with a school-related arrest. Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures. For four years Monique W. Morris, author of Black Stats, chronicled the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged-by teachers, administrators, and the justice system-and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. "--
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