Pushout the criminalization of Black girls in schools
"Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for vi...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
The New Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Struggling to survive
- A blues for Black girls when the "attitude" is enuf
- Jezebel in the classroom
- Learning to lockdown
- Repairing relationships, rebuilding connections
- Appendices: Girls, we got you! : A Q & A for girls, parents, community members, and educators ; Resources for African American girls ; Alternatives to punishment.
