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Where Did My Black Folk Go? The Exclusion Of Black Males From American K-12 Classrooms, Conrad Webster
Where Did My Black Folk Go? The Exclusion Of Black Males From American K-12 Classrooms, Conrad Webster
Ed.D. Dissertations in Practice
Few studies have sought to understand the lived experiences of Black males being excluded from K-12 classrooms. This qualitative study explored the punitive tools and approaches that have removed Black males from American K-12 classrooms, hindering their academic achievement and disproportionately sending Black males onto a one-way path to prison. This study centered the voices of racialized Black males as a way to clarify the lived experiences of unequal interactions within the school to prison pipeline. Considering the hyper-surveillance of Black males in schools and the normalization of school resource officers to criminalize Black males, too little research centers on …