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Compulsory: Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School

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Description for Compulsory: Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 51. .

“This is an American story, unsettled by contradictions, constituted by unresolvable loss and open-ended hope, produced through brutal exclusivities and persistent insurgencies. This is the story of Lincoln prison.” In her Introduction, Sabina E. Vaught passionately details why the subject of prisons and prison schooling is so important. An unprecedented institutional ethnography of race and gender power in one state’s juvenile prison school system, Compulsory will have major implications for public education everywhere.

Vaught argues that through its educational apparatus, the state disproportionately removes young Black men from their homes and subjects them to the abuses of captivity. She explores the ... Read more

Through a theoretically rigorous analysis of the daily experiences of prisoners, teachers, state officials, mothers, and more, Compulsory provides vital insight into the broad compulsory systems of schooling—both Inside prison and in the world Outside—asking readers to reconsider conventional understandings of the role, purpose, and value of state schooling today.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816696215
SKU
V9780816696215
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99-1

About Sabina E. Vaught
Sabina E. Vaught is associate professor of education and director of the Educational Studies Program and the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Tufts University. She is author of Racism, Public Schooling, and the Entrenchment of White Supremacy.  

Reviews for Compulsory: Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School
"Fiercely rendered, Compulsory is the book for our moment. This book requires readers to remap the circuits that bind schools to prisons and the state and centers how communities—including young men who are locked up and their loved ones—negotiate, and often shatteringly resist, these powerlines. Situating the ‘prison classroom’ within a carceral landscape punctuated by deeply racialized and heteropatriachal practices ... Read more

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