Sanobar: The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Can We Create More Equitable Pathways for Black Students?, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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For the purpose of this book, the author explores how the humanity of young Black men
and boys is stripped away in schools. Moreover, the author seeks to investigate the effects of
dehumanization on young Black males in spaces of learning. As a result of this exploration, the
author argues that Black educators must teach Black pupils to resist the forces designed to
neutralize Black children. White teachers arrogantly bragging to a classroom of Black students
about whites so-called superiority only perpetuates the lie of Black inferiority among young
pupils. The news article Black student describes anger he felt when his White teacher told class
his race is the superior one, reported a teacher in Pflugerville, Texas, who was caught on
recording engaging with Black students in a way that exceeded the boundaries of suitable
decorum (to say the very least). In one video posted online, the teacher can be seen saying to his
multi-racial class, Deep down in my heart, I m ethnocentric, which means I think my race is the
superior one, as students audibly react both on- and off-camerä