We should be working with, and on behalf of all girls-including African American girls-to support and enhance school performance, but they are consistently left out of the conversation.īlack girls are more likely to be suspended for challenging ideas on how girls should behave, present and express themselves. As teachers, researchers, and policymakers who are interested in education, we often make decisions about discipline policies without the voices of those most affected. The gift of this book is in the voices of the girls who have been pushed out of schools. Monique Morris challenges us to rethink how we perceive, teach and treat Black girls by using the voices of young Black girls to explain what the data tells us- that these girls are disproportionately pushed out of the classroom through unfair discipline policies. Black girls are suspended at six times the rate of white girls, and they make up only 17 percent of girls in public schools but almost half of school related arrests.
The book powerfully addresses pushout, which is the structural racism and the cultural barriers that push Black girls out of the classroom and to the outer brinks of society. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is a must read for anyone who has loved, known, taught, considered or judged a Black girl. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
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