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ERIC Number: EJ1169763
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Jan
Pages: 24
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ISSN: EISSN-1947-5578
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Black Radicals Make for Bad Citizens: Undoing the Myth of the School to Prison Pipeline
Sojoyner, Damien M.
Berkeley Review of Education, v4 n2 p241-263 Jan 2013
Over the past ten years, the analytic formation of the school to prison pipeline has come to dominate the lexicon and general common sense with respect to the relationship between schools and prisons in the United States. The concept and theorization that undergirds its meaning and function do not address the root causes that are central to complex dynamics between public education and prisons. This paper argues that in place of the articulation of the school to prison pipeline, what is needed is a nuanced and historicized understanding of the racialized politics pertaining to the centrality of education to Black liberation struggles. The result of such work indicates that the enclosure of public education foregrounds the expansion of the prison system and consequently, schools are not a training ground for prisons, but are the key site at which technologies of control that govern Black oppression are deemed normal and necessary.
Berkeley Graduate School of Education, University of California, 5648 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94702. Tel: 510-328-3701; e-mail: bre_editor@berkeley.edu; Web site: http://www.berkeleyreviewofeducation.com
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California (Los Angeles)
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