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First strike : educational enclosures in Black Los Angeles / Damien M. Sojoyner.
Van Pelt Library LC2803.L6 S64 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sojoyner, Damien M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Education--Social aspects--California--Los Angeles.
- African Americans.
- Educational sociology--California--Los Angeles.
- Educational sociology.
- Racism in education--California--Los Angeles.
- Racism in education.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--California--Los Angeles.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- School discipline--California--Los Angeles.
- School discipline.
- African Americans--Education--Social aspects.
- African Americans--Education.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 265 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Taking a unique, multifaceted insider's perspective, First Strike examines the root causes of California's ever-expansive prison system and disastrous educational policy. Refocusing analysis of Black masculinity beyond public rhetoric, it critiques the trope of the "School-to-Prison Pipeline," exploring the realm of public school as a form of "enclosure" that has influenced the schooling (and denial of schooling) and imprisonment of Black people in California. Policy makers, school districts, and local governments have long known that there is a relationship between high incarceration rates and school failure. This is the first book to demonstrate why that connection exists and shows how school districts, cities, and states have been complicit and can reverse a disturbing and needles trend. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the problematic history between schools and prisons
- The problem of Black genius : Black cultural enclosures
- In the belly of the beast : ideological expansion
- Land of smoke and mirrors : the meaning of punishment and control
- Troubled man : limitations of the masculinity solution
- By all means possible : the historical struggle over Black education
- Conclusion : reading the past and listening to the present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sojoyner, Damien M., author. First strike
- ISBN:
- 9780816697533
- 0816697531
- 9780816697557
- 0816697558
- OCLC:
- 947190691
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