Black girls matter : pushed out, overpoliced, and underprotected / by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ; with Priscilla Ocen and Jyoti Nanda ; African American Policy Forum, Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies.

"Girls of color face much harsher school discipline than their white peers but are excluded from current efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline... Crenshaw, a leading authority in how law and society are shaped by race and gender, argues that an intersectional approach encompassing how related identity categories such as race, gender, and class overlap to create inequality on multiple levels is necessary to address the issue of school discipline and the school-to-prison pipeline. The study cites several examples of excessive disciplinary actions against young black girls, including the controversial 2014 case of a 12-year-old in Georgia who faced expulsion and criminal charges for writing the word "hi' on a locker room wall. A white female classmate who was also involved faced a much less severe punishment. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education cited in the report, nationally black girls were suspended six times more than white girls, while black boys were suspended three times as often as white boys. "--Website.

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