Binding: Hardcover
Description: NOW A NEW YORK Times AND A US a Today Bestseller Finalist LOS Angeles Times BOOK Prize I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education reform in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved to dream. Ibram X. Kendi New York Times bestselling author of How to be an Antiracist In the tradition of Michelle Alexander an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives In Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan's presidency ushered in a War on Black Children pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. New policies punished schools with policing closure and loss of funding in the name of reform as white savior egalitarian efforts increasingly allowed private interests to infiltrate the system. These changes implicated children of color and Black children in particular as low performing making it all too easy to turn a blind eye to their disproportionate conviction and incarceration. Today there is little national conversation about a structural overhaul of American schools; cosmetic changes rooted in anti - Blackness are now passed off as justice. It is time to put a price tag on the miseducation of Black children. In this prequel to The New Jim Crow Dr. Love serves up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it. Punished for Dreaming lays bare the devastating effect on 25 Black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology. Then with input from leading U. S. economists Dr. Love offers a road map for repair arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core.
Title: Punished For Dreaming How School Reform Harms Black Children And How We Heal
Author(s): Love Bettina L.
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250280381
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/12/2023