Overview
California is a state of immense contradictions. Home to colossal wealth and long portrayed as a bastion of opportunity, it also has one of the largest prison populations in the United States and consistently ranks on the bottom of education indexes. Taking a unique, multifaceted insider s perspective, ""First Strike"" delves into the root causes of its ever-expansive prison system and disastrous educational policy.Recentering analysis of Black masculinity beyond public rhetoric, ""First Strike"" critiques the trope of the school-to-prison pipeline and instead explores the realm of public school as a form of enclosure that has influenced the schooling (and denial of schooling) and imprisonment of Black people in California.
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Author: Damien M. Sojoyner
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780816697557
ISBN 10: 0816697558
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 October 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Damien M. Sojoyner fills a significant gap in literature by problematizing the school-to-prison pipeline, offering a more nuanced analytical frame than the one represented in most contemporary popular discourse. First Strike helps us understand what is happening to young people in under-resourced schools and the ways that their experience reflects an eroding commitment to education in favor of punishment.""-Beth E. Richie, University of Illinois at Chicago ""Sojoyner provides a masterful narrative of Black Los Angeles against the backdrop of mass incarceration and the criminalization of Black children. Scholars and educators should heed Sojoyner’s call to challenge the ‘school-to-prison’ discourse to the more historically grounded ‘enclosures.’""-Maisha T. Winn, Chancellor’s Leadership Professor, University of California, Davis ""Sojoyner’s sweeping analysis of enclosures presents a compelling vision of what ethnography can accomplish in tandem with historical analysis.""-PoLAR ""First Strike pushes anthropological analysis beyond the ethnographic by drawing upon history, policy, and social geography to build a theory of power that accounts for the force of the state as a reactionary response to the radical potential of Black liberation.""-Anthropological Quarterly ""First Strike contributes crucially to theories of black liberation vis-À-vis education, namely, literatures working to disrupt antiblack narratives of cultural failure within educational policy circles."" -American Ethnologist
Damien M. Sojoyner fills a significant gap in literature by problematizing the school-to-prison pipeline, offering a more nuanced analytical frame than the one represented in most contemporary popular discourse. First Strike helps us understand what is happening to young people in under-resourced schools and the ways that their experience reflects an eroding commitment to education in favor of punishment. Beth E. Richie, University of Illinois at Chicago Sojoyner provides a masterful narrative of Black Los Angeles against the backdrop of mass incarceration and the criminalization of Black children. Scholars and educators should heed Sojoyner s call to challenge the school-to-prison discourse to the more historically grounded enclosures. Maisha T. Winn, Chancellor s Leadership Professor, University of California, Davis
Author Information
Damien M. Sojoyneris assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.
