Schooling in Babylon, Babylon in School: When Racial Profiling and Zero Tolerance Converge
Abstract
This article is timely; it reports on a field-based research project and makes a critical contribution to the current media-generated debates on the problems of institutional authority and the schooling of black students.1 Further, it provides an analysis of the concept and practice of "racial profiling" of Blacks by institutional agents, the policy of "zero tolerance" in schools and its disproportionate removal of racial minorities from classroom learning, These factors contribute to the notion and process of the "school-prison pipeline" advanced by Skiba et al. (2003).Downloads
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