Compulsory : Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School / Sabina E. Vaught.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaught, Sabina Elena, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American youth--United States.

African American youth.

Education, Compulsory--United States.

Education, Compulsory.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.

Juvenile justice, Administration of.

Reformatories--United States.

Reformatories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London, [England] : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Summary:

"This is an American story, unsettled by contradictions, constituted by unresolvable loss and open-ended hope, produced through brutal exclusivities and persistent insurgencies.This is the story of Lincoln prison." In her Introduction, Sabina E.Vaught passionately details why the subject of prisons and prison schooling is so important.

Contents:

Introduction: take no prisoners

Outside

With its institutions : the education state

Keys : lock-up and juvenile prison

The street : arterials of the white state

Second possession : racial property and removal

Home : a story in three parts

Inside

Compulsory schooling : inside the education state

The architecture of discipline : personal safety and prison security

Guilty by association : kinship and treatment

Conclusion: futilities

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4529-5330-9

OCLC:

970042490