Full Description
WINNER OF THE 2019 AESA CRITICS' CHOICE BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION ALISON PIEPMEIER BOOK PRIZE
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.
Contents
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
