Mark R. Warren

Willful Defiance

The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline

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In Willful Defiance, by Mark R. Warren tells the story of how Black and Brown parents and students organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline in their local schools and built a movement that spread across the country. He examines organizing processes in Mississippi, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other localities, showing how parents and students of color changed exclusionary discipline policies that suspend and expel students of color atdisproportionate rates and policing practices that lead students into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The book documents the struggle to build a movement led by community groups rather than Wa… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-761151-7
EAN: 9780197611517
Produktnummer: 37251117
Verlag: Oxford Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 344 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm

Über den Autor

Mark R. Warren is Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston. A sociologist and community-engaged scholar, he studies and works with community, parent and youth organizing groups seeking to promote equity and justice in education, community development and American democratic life. Warren is the author of five books, including Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out! Voices from the Front Lines of theEducational Justice Movement (2018). Warren has co-founded several networks promoting activist scholarship, community organizing and movement-building, including the Peoples Think Tank on educational justice, the Urban Research Based Action Network, and the Special Interest Group on Community and Youth Organizing in the AmericanEducational Research Association. He has won a number of prestigious awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.