num_pages: 277
description: 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 violating a court order to attend school.Just 16 percent of female students in the USA Black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest. The first book to tell these untold stories Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies practices and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy unstable and often unsafe futures.For four years Monique W. Morris author of Black Stats chronicled the experiences of black girls across America whose intricate lives are misunderstood highly judgedby teachers administrators and the justice systemand degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Morris shows how despite obstacles stigmas stereotypes and despair black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms juvenile facilities and beyond.
language: English
title: Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
publisher: The New Press