Urban Girls of Color and the Carceral Environment of Schools

• In Event: 31.042 - Disciplining Bodies, Educational Resistance, and Carceral Pedagogies

Abstract

This work is an investigation of the ways punitive school culture (practices, policies, and norms) construct carceral-like conditions that recapitulate systems of incarceration in public high schools as they affect the education of urban Girls of Color. This work explores the experiences and perceptions of Black and Brown girls from five high schools across the United States, focusing on the narratives of Girls of Color who have discipline records to understand the punitive culture of schools (policies, norms, practices, and conditions) that shape their experiences with intersectional violence and carceral environments as they relate to their disciplinary and schooling experience.

Authors

• Shena Sanchez, University of California - Los Angeles

• Jamelia Nicole Harris, University of California - Los Angeles