Educational Militarization as a Colonial Project in Urban Schools

• In Event: 79.022 - Injury, Loss, and the (Im)Possibility of Justice in Racially Punitive and (Neo)Colonial Schooling

Abstract

Military presence in K-12 schools may be a response to decreasing numbers of enlisting Black Americans in the Army (Asch et.al, 2009). Employing Achille Mbembe's necropolitics and disability studies delves into how death, the right to maim (Puar, 2017), and power all intersect to reinforce a colonial project; enlisted members are both terrorized and inflict terror to maintain systems of oppression. In analyzing the outcomes of legislation and programs such as No Child Left Behind and ROTC which introduce low-income youth of color to the armed forces, this paper focuses on the practices and policies of urban schools and their greater implications for the educational trajectories of Black and brown children.

Author

• Nina Monet Reynoso, University of California - Los Angeles