Black (Out): Discipline Inequity Matters for Black Females at the Elementary School Level

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 7
  In Poster Session: Division L Section 7 Poster Session (San Diego)

Abstract

Nearly 3.5 million American students (K-12) experience exclusion from educational settings yearly in the form of In-School-Suspension (ISS) and Out-of-School suspension (OSS). This paper addresses elementary exclusion for Black females through the lens of Black Female Adultification and Racial Threat theories. Discipline data spanning nine years for a single cohort were utilized to determine risk and survival rates of females relative to one another. Using discrete-time history event analysis provided evidence to suggests a student’s ethnicity determined the extent to which they faced exclusion during each year. Further, data suggests rates of exclusion for Black females, and overrepresentation in exclusion represent differential treatment of Black females by teachers and school administrators.

Author

• Oliver K Patterson, The University of Texas - Arlington