2313 - The Pushouts: A Film on the Crisis in Education for Marginalized Students of Color

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

The Pushouts interrogates crucial questions of race, class and power in the education system. It is a film about the work Sociologist Victor Rios conducted with a group of youths from Watts (Los Angeles). These young people had all been kicked out of school; his research team was trying to figure out a way to help them get back into school while pushing the school system to change the way they were disciplining kids. The film attempts to create a conversation about racial inequality in education by exposing the day-to-day experiences of marginalized young people. Racial inequality in education and reform in education cannot be understood without understanding how the punitive school policies impact the day-to-day lives of young people and how these young people’s voices provide key insight on how we might change this system.

Sub Unit

• Special Sessions

Session Organizer

• Victor M. Rios, University of California-Santa Barbara

Discussants

• Prudence L. Carter, University of California-Berkeley

• Victor M. Rios, University of California-Santa Barbara