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Black Girls and School Discipline: The Complexities of Being Overrepresented and Understudied

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Black Girls and School Discipline: The Complexities of Being Overrepresented and Understudied

Abstract/Description

Using Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Feminism as guiding conceptual frameworks, this mixed-methods empirical study examines Black girls’ exclusionary discipline outcomes. First, we examined disciplinary data from a large urban school district to assess racial group differences in office referral reasons and disparities for Black girls in out-of-school suspensions, law enforcement referrals, and expulsions. Next, we used a multivariate analysis to determine whether these patterns held after accounting for other identity markers. Finally, we used Critical Discourse Analysis to consider whether office referrals for Black girls were for subjective or objective behaviors and whether they aligned with dominant narratives.

Date

In publication

Volume

54

Issue

2

Pages

211–242

Resource type

Background/Context

Medium

Print

Background/context type

Conceptual

Open access/free-text available

Yes

Peer reviewed

Yes

Citation

Annamma, S. A., Anyon, Y., Joseph, N. M., Farrar, J., Greer, E., Downing, B., & Simmons, J. (2019). Black Girls and School Discipline: The Complexities of Being Overrepresented and Understudied. Urban Education, 54(2), 211–242. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085916646610

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