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.Just 16 percent of female students, Black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest. The first trade book to tell these untold stories, 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 judgedby teachers, administrators, and the justice systemand degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Morris shows how, despite obstacles, stigmas, stereotypes, and despair, black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond.
CONTRIBUTORS: Monique W Morris
EAN: 9781620970942
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 439 g
HEIGHT: 209 cm
PUBLISHED BY: The New Press
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GENRE: EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
WIDTH: 139 cm
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Book Themes:
United States of America, USA, Relating to African American / Black American people, Social discrimination and social justice, Gender studies: women and girls, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Education
Monique W. Morris is the co-founder of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute and writes a monthly column on black women and girls for Ebony.com. She is the author of Black Stats (The New Press) and lives in Oakland, CA with her husband and two daughters.
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