Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

by Monique Morris and Monique W. Morris

Book Overview

NOW IN PAPERBACK The "powerful" (Michelle Alexander) exploration--featured by the Atlantic, Essence, the Washington Post, New York magazine, NPR, the New Republic and the Tom Joyner Morning Show--of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting black girls in schools In a work that has rapidly become "imperative reading" (Lisa Delpit) on education, gender, and juvenile justice, Monique W. Morris (Black Stats, Too Beautiful for Words) chronicles the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620973421
• ISBN13: 9781620973424
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"

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.