Right to be hostile : schools, prisons, and the making of public enemies / Erica R. Meiners.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meiners, Erica R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy--United States.

Critical pedagogy.

Discrimination in education--United States.

Discrimination in education.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Social change--United States.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Erica Meiners offers concrete examples and new insights into the 'school to prison pipeline' phenomenon, and shows how disciplinary regulations, pedagogy, and other educational structures and practices not only implictly advance, but actually normalize an expectation of incarceration for urban youth.

In Right to be Hostile , scholar and activist Erica Meiners offers concrete examples and new insights into the "school to prison' pipeline phenomenon, showing how disciplinary regulations, pedagogy, pop culture and more not only implicitly advance, but actually normalize an expectation of incarceration for urban youth. Analyzed through a framework of an expanding incarceration nation, Meiners demonstrates how educational practices that disproportionately target youth of color become linked directly to practices of racial profiling that are endemic in state structures. As early as preschool, such educational policies and practices disqualify increasing numbers of students of color as they are funneled through schools as under-educated, unemployable, 'dangerous,' and in need of surveillance and containment. By linking schools to prisons, Meiners asks researchers, activists, and educators to consider not just how our schools' physical structures resemble prisons- metal detectors or school uniforms- but the tentacles in policies, practices and informal knowledge that support, naturalize, and extend, relationships between incarceration and schools. Understanding how and why prison expansion is possible necessitates connecting schools to prisons and the criminal justice system, and redefining "what counts" as educational policy. In Right to be Hostile , scholar and activist Erica Meiners offers concrete examples and new insights into the "school to prison' pipeline phenomenon, showing how disciplinary regulations, pedagogy, pop culture and more not only implicitly advance, but actually normalize an expectation of incarceration for urban youth. Analyzed through a framework of an expanding incarceration nation, Meiners demonstrates how educational practices that disproportionately target youth of color become linked directly to practices of racial profiling that are endemic in state structures. As early as preschool, such educational policies and practices disqualify increasing numbers of students of color as they are funneled through schools as under-educated, unemployable, 'dangerous,' and in need of surveillance and containment. By linking schools to prisons, Meiners asks researchers, activists, and educators to consider not just how our schools' physical structures resemble prisons- metal detectors or school uniforms- but the tentacles in policies, practices and informal knowledge that support, naturalize, and extend, relationships between incarceration and schools. Understanding how and why prison expansion is possible necessitates connecting schools to prisons and the criminal justice system, and redefining "what counts" as educational policy.

Contents:

Surveillance, ladies bountiful, and the management of outlaw emotions

Strange fruit

Life after Oz

Awful acts and the trouble with normal

Political recoveries

Horizons of abolition.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-208) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-18980-X

1-135-90903-2

1-135-90904-0

9786611076498

1-281-07649-X

0-415-95711-7

0-203-93645-0

1-281-06164-6

9780203936450

OCLC:

667098259