Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

by Monique Morris and Monique W. Morris

Book Overview

The "powerful" (Michelle Alexander) exploration of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools, and how we can instead orient schools toward their flourishing

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620970945
• ISBN13: 9781620970942
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Essential Reading for All Teachers of Black Girls

If you work in a school as a teacher, paraprofessional, custodian, principal, chef, or receptionist, you should read this book. This book illuminates the real-world impacts of prejudice, stereotypes, and violence against black women. When I did my student teaching, a young black woman showed me this book and told me about her experience going to jail for 1 night after a fight her senior year of high school. This traumatic experience really hurt her, but I just felt shocked. After reading this book I saw how common it was. Only through deep love, intersectional feminism, and education (through this book) can we begin to redistribute our LOVE and social resources to black girls. Thank you Monique Morris, Ed.D.