PD 537 – Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

The Women’s Center in partnership with the GLBT Center and the College of Education will facilitate a discussion on the book, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, by Monique Morris. The book is a call to action around the inequalities of Black girls within K-12 education. Describing the real experiences of Black girls Morris describes the school to confinement pipeline, exposing the high risk situations which affect the life trajectory of Black girls after being pushed out of school; setting them on the path to incarceration as well as physical and economic insecurity. From a critical race theory perspective, we will provide an overview of the book and facilitate a discussion of what we can do as educators, counselors, and higher education professionals to alleviate the pushout of Black girls in education.

Facilitators: Angela Gay, Women’s Center; Andy DeRoin, GLBT Center; Whitney McCoy, Doctoral Student

**This book is available for online reading through NCSU Libraries but not a requirement to attend the session.

Audience: Undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff
Contact/Instructor: Regina Gavin Williams
Credit: 0.5