The pedagogy of pathologization : dis abled girls of color in the school-prison nexus

Linking powerful first-person narratives with structural analysis, The Pedagogy of Pathologization explores the construction of criminal identities in schools via the intersections of race, disability, and gender. amid the prevalence of targeted mass incarceration. Focusing uniquely on the pathologization of female students of color, whose voices are frequently engulfed by labels of deviance and disability, a distinct and underrepresented experience of the school-to-prison pipeline is detailed through original qualitative methods rooted in authentic narratives. The book’s DisCrit framework, grounded in interdisciplinary research, draws on scholarship from critical race theory, disability studies, education, women’s and girl’s studies, legal studies, and more. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Cover 1 Half Title 4 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Dedication 8 Contents 10 List of Figures and Tables 11 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction: Prison Nation and the School-Prison Nexus 14 1 Public Schools and the Criminalization of Difference— Destruction and Creation 40 2 Criminal Literacies and the Redemptive Powers of Juvenile Incarceration 73 3 Release and Resistance—Unprepared Exits and Radical Imaginations in Invented Spaces 117 4 Expansive Justice and a Pedagogy of Resistance 149 Appendix: Mapping the Margins and Methodological Pluralism 177 Index 208 "The Pedagogy of Pathologization analyzes the construction of criminal identities in schools via the intersections of race, gender, class, and disability amid the prevalence of targeted mass incarceration. Focusing uniquely on the pathologization of female students of color, whose voices are frequently engulfed by labels of deviance and disability, a distinct and underrepresented experience of the school-to-prison pipeline is detailed through original, qualitative methodologies. The book's DisCrit framework, grounded in interdisciplinary research, draws on scholarship from education, women's and girl's studies, critical race theory, legal studies, and more."--Provided by publisher Introduction: Prison Nation & the School-Prison Nexus Chapter 1: Public Schools and the Criminalization of Difference-Destruction and Creation Chapter 2: Criminal Literacies and the Redemptive Powers of Juvenile Incarceration Chapter 3: Release & Resistance-Unprepared Exits & Radical Imaginations Chapter 4: Expansive Justice and a Pedagogy of Resistance Appendix: Mapping the Margins & Methodological Pluralism