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The school-to-prison pipeline : education, discipline, and racialized double standards / Nancy A. Heitzeg.
Van Pelt Library LC212.52 .H45 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heitzeg, Nancy A., author.
- Series:
- Racism in American institutions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism in education--United States.
- Racism in education.
- Prison-industrial complex.
- United States.
- Prison-industrial complex--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 178 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2016]
- Summary:
- Despite the fact that American has elected its first black president racism has historically been a problem in out society and continues to be an issue today. The days of overt racist policies such as the Jim Crow laws and school segregation may be over, but covert racism still affects many of America established institutions, from our public schools to our corporate officers. The Racism in American Institutions series examines the problem of racism in vested American establishments. Each volume traces the prevalence of racism within that American fixture throughout history and explores the challenges that exist today, looking at how the institution has changed to fight against racism as well as how its current practices remain rooted in prejudice Book jacket.
- Contents:
- School to prison pipeline: education on lockdown
- Education, race, and social control
- Segregated schools, sociopolitical shifts and education under siege
- School to prison pipeline: the context of social control
- Racialized control in the era of color blindness
- The prison industrial complex: profit, race and the prison track
- Medical industrial complex: race and the double standards of diagnosis
- School to prison pipeline: punitive policies and transformative alternatives
- Criminalized education, schoolhouse as jailhouse
- Education not incarceration: ending the school to prison pipeline.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Heitzeg, Nancy A., author. School to prison pipeline.
- ISBN:
- 9781440831119
- 1440831114
- OCLC:
- 940790441
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