dc.contributor.author | Williams, Jewel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-12-04T20:56:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-12-04T20:56:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06-15 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/8759 | |
dc.description | Teaching and Learning Department capstone project | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Throughout history, Black children have been dehumanized, criminalized, and sexualized.
Additionally, though education can be a transformative and liberative tool, Black children have
been deprived of quality and equitable education or pushed out of schools and into confinement
through harsh punitive punishments that have oftentimes been found to be rooted in racism,
sexism, classism, etc. Unfortunately, most of the advocacy and research that is has been done up
until recently has been focused on the treatment of Black boys in society. While many advocacy
and activist groups are working to change systems for Black boys, our Black girls are receiving
harsher juvenile justice sentences and more punitive punishments than any other group of girls
and are the fastest growing population in departments of juvenile justice. This paper discusses
the keys—outlined by Dr. Monique Morris— that are needed to incorporate transformative
practices for Black girls in schools. These keys are: a race conscious gender analysis; an erasure
of respectability politics in Schools; a centered response to victimization; high expectations for
all Students; practices that facilitate healing opportunities for Black girls; and a centering of
voices of color and experiential knowledge. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Vanderbilt University. Peabody College | en_US |
dc.subject | Pushout | en_US |
dc.subject | Black Girls | en_US |
dc.subject | race | en_US |
dc.subject | Social justice | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | African American girls -- Education | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | African American girls -- Attitudes | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Discrimination in education -- United States | en_US |
dc.title | Black Girl, Be! Creating Transformative Spaces for Black Girls in Public Education Schools | en_US |
dc.type | Capstone | en_US |
dc.description.college | Peabody College of Education and Human Development | en_US |
dc.description.department | Department of Teaching and Learning | en_US |