Published 2021
“…Drawing from more than 40 different archives as well as 20 original oral histories, it maintains that school policing and student discipline have historically served as tools of social control and racial dominance, emerging with the very founding of organized education in America, and expanding most rapidly and dramatically as a direct response to the prospect of desegregated schooling and the attendant rupture in
American life. In the wake of this conflict, the carceral apparatus was not only linked with, but institutionalized into, the public education system. …”
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