Dehumanization, Criminalization, & Punishment of Black Children

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Online Reading 

• Get Out!: Black Male Suspensions in California Public Schools (Wood, Harris III, & Howard, 2018) - Report on School Discipline

• Black Girls Matter: Pushed-Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected (Crenshaw, Ocen, & Nanda, 2015) - Report on School Discipline

• The Essence of Innocence: Consequences of Dehumanizing Black Children (Goff et al., 2014) - Academic Journal Article

• Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities (U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2018)

Youtube Videos

• Black Minds Matter: Addressing Disproportionate Suspensions of Black Children and Youth (2021)

• Pushout: A Discussion about the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Morris, 2016)

• Race, Revolution, and the Struggle for Quality Education (Stovall, 2015)

• Antiblackness and Black Futurity in Research on Urban Communities and Schooling (Dumas, 2015) 

• Challenging Racial Disparities in School Discipline Outcomes (Noguera, 2014)

• Racism in Education and Social Engineering (Gillborn, 2013)

Book Recommendations

• Agyepong, T. E. (2018). The Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago’s Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.

• Ferguson, A. A. (2011). Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.

• Kafka, J. (2013). The History of “Zero Tolerance” in American Public Schooling. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 

• Morris, M. W. (2016). Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. New York, NY: The New Press.