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Being Bad will change the way you think about the social and academic worlds of Black boys. In a poignant and harrowing journey from systems of education to systems of criminal justice, the author follows her brother, Chris, who has been designated a bad kid by his school, a person of interest by the police, and a gangster by society. Readers first meet Chris in a Chicago jail, where he is being held in connection with a string of street robberies. We then learn about Chris through insiders accounts that stretch across time to reveal key events preceding this tragic moment. Together, these stories explore such timely issues as the under-education of Black males, the place and importance of scapegoats in our culture, the on-the-ground reality of zero tolerance, the role of mainstream media in constructing Black masculinity, and the critical relationships between schools and prisons. No other book combines rigorous research, personal narrative, and compelling storytelling to examine the educational experiences of young Black males.
Book Features:
- The natural history of an African American teenager navigating a labyrinth of social worlds.
- A detailed, concrete example of the school-to-prison pipeline phenomenon.
- Rare insightsof an African American family making sense of, and healing from, school wounds.
- Suggested resources of reliable places where educators can learn and do more.
Other books have focusedon the school-to-prison pipeline or the educational experiences of young African American males, but I know of none that bring the combination of rigorous research, up-close personal vantage point, and skilled storytelling provided by Laura in Being Bad.
Gregory Michie, chicago public school teacher, author of Holler If You Hear Me, senior research associate at the Center for Policy Studies and Social Justice, Concordia University Chicago
Refusing to separate the threads that bind the oppressive fabric of contemporary urban life, Laura has crafted a story that is at once astutely critical, funny, engaging, tearful, dialogue-filled, profoundly theoretical, despairing, and filled with hope. Being Bad is a challenge and a gift to students, families, policymakers, soon-to-be teachers, social workers, and ethnographers.
Michelle Fine, distinguished professor, Graduate Center, CUNY
Perhaps more than any other study on this topic, this book brings to life the complicated, fleshed, lived experience of those most directly and collaterally impacted by the politics of schooling and its relationship to our growing prison nation.
Garrett Albert Duncan, associate professor of Education and African & African-American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
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William Ayers Series Editor
Therese Quinn Associate Series Editor
Editorial Board: Hal Adams, Barbara Bowman, Lisa Delpit, Michelle Fine, Maxine Greene, Caroline Heller, Annette Henry, Asa Hilliard, Rashid Khalidi, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Charles Payne, Mark Perry, Luis Rodriguez, Jonathan Silin, William Watkins
Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
C RYSTAL T. L AURA
Fear and Learning in America: Bad Data, Good Teachers, and the Attack on Public Education
J OHN K UHN
Deep Knowledge: Learning to Teach Science for Understanding and Equity
D OUGLAS B. L ARKIN
Bad Teacher! How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture
K EVIN K. K UMASHIRO
Crossing BoundariesTeaching and Learning with Urban Youth
V ALERIE K INLOCH
The Assault on Public Education: Confronting the Politics of Corporate School Reform
W ILLIAM H. W ATKINS , E D .
Pedagogy of the Poor: Building the Movement to End Poverty
W ILLIE B APTIST & J AN R EHMANN
Grow Your Own Teachers: Grassroots Change for Teacher Education
E LIZABETH A. S KINNER , M ARIA T ERESA G ARRETN , & B RIAN D. S CHULTZ , E DS .
Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
M AISHA T. W INN
Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students, Second Edition
G REGORY M ICHIE
Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader
J OSEPH E NTIN , R OBERT C. R OSEN , & L EONARD V OGT , E DS .
Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom
B RIAN D. S CHULTZ
The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on Americas Schools
K EVIN K. K UMASHIRO
Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition
C HARLES M. P AYNE & C AROL S ILLS S TRICKLAND , E DS .
Social Studies for Social Justice: Teaching Strategies for the Elementary Classroom
R AHIMA C. W ADE
Pledging Allegiance: The Politics of Patriotism in Americas Schools
J OEL W ESTHEIMER , E D .
See You When We Get There: Teaching for Change in Urban Schools
G REGORY M ICHIE
Echoes of Brown: Youth Documenting and Performing the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
M ICHELLE F INE
Writing in the Asylum: Student Poets in City Schools
J ENNIFER M C C ORMICK
Teaching the Personal and the Political: Essays on Hope and Justice
W ILLIAM A YERS
Teaching Science for Social Justice
A NGELA C ALABRESE B ARTON ET AL .
Putting the Children First: The Changing Face of Newarks Public Schools
J ONATHAN G. S ILIN & C AROL L IPPMAN , E DS .
Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights
C YNTHIA S TOKES B ROWN
A School of Our Own: Parents, Power, and Community at the East Harlem Block Schools
T OM R ODERICK
The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power in America, 18651954
W ILLIAM W ATKINS
The Public Assault on Americas Children: Poverty, Violence, and Juvenile Injustice
V ALERIE P OLAKOW , E D .
Construction Sites: Excavating Race, Class, and Gender Among Urban Youths
L OIS W EIS & M ICHELLE F INE , E DS .
Walking the Color Line: The Art and Practice of Anti-Racist Teaching
M ARK P ERRY
A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools
W ILLIAM A YERS , M ICHAEL K LONSKY , & G ABRIELLE H. L YON , E DS .
Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader
W ILLIAM A YERS , J EAN A NN H UNT , & T HERESE Q UINN
My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Foreword by William Ayers
Afterword by Erica R. Meiners
Teachers College
Columbia University
New York and London
Published by Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Copyright 2014 by Teachers College, Columbia University
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Laura, Crystal T.
Being bad: my baby brother and the school-to-prison pipeline / Crystal T. Laura; foreword by William Ayers; afterword by Erica R. Meiners.
pages cm. (The teaching for social justice series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-0-8077-5596-9 (pbk.: alk. paper)
ISBN: 978-0-8077-5597-6 (hardcover: alk. paper)
ISBN: 978-0-8077-7339-0 (ebook)
1. African American boysEducationSocial aspects. 2. African American young menEducationSocial aspects. 3. African American high school studentsIllinoisBiography. 4. School disciplineUnited States. 5. Chicago Public Schools. 6. Juvenile justice, Administration ofUnited States. I. Title.
LC2779.L38 2014
371.82996073dc23
2014028036
ISBN: 978-0-8077-5596-9 (paper)
ISBN: 978-0-8077-5597-6 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0-8077-7339-0 (ebook)
I MET CHRIS SMITH through a thick plexiglass window, each of us scrunched onto a small metal stool and taking turns shouting hellos and introductions through a little metal grate in order to be heard above the din. Chris was incarcerated in Cook County Jail awaiting trial on a robbery charge, and I was visiting because Id promised Crystal Laura, his sister and my student at the time, as well as my friend then and now, that I would. The place was miserable: a dark and narrow hallway with maybe 15 of us visitors evenly distributed on our side of the impenetrable glass and concrete wall, waiting. Wed inched along the slow-snaking roped-off security line; wed been run through metal detectors and then patted down; wed been identity-checked and hand-stamped; wed been ordered about, checked off, and registered; some of us had even been scolded by the turn-keys for our choice of pants or top and been banished, told to come back wearing appropriate clothing. After all that I thought for sure wed be meeting in a big room seated at tables across from our friends or loved ones. No such thing: Chris and the other cuffed and chained Black men shuffled in and took seats on their side of the barrier, straining to be seen and heard. The stench of the slave market was everywhere.
Whats up? I shouted, and he smiled and shouted back: Doing good; nice to meet you. He was as Crystal had always described him: sharp, smiling, small in his jumbo-sized jump suit, and cute as a button.
With this courageous book Crystal Laura takes us on an odyssey into her cherished little brothers worldjail and prison to be sure, but before that school and special education, the temptations and the perils of the streets, and right from the start a beloved family fighting with all its might to disrupt a narrative with its brutal conclusion seemingly already written in indelible ink for Chris. With an ethnographers endurance, a scholars intent, and a sisters hopeful heart, Crystal Laura has constructed a unique and morally awake narrative of the twists and turns that confront kids like Chris everyday in every corner of America. There are surprises and insights on every page, lessons for teachers, parents, youth workers, and anyone concerned about the sorry state were in regarding the future of young men of color.
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