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Black Girls Matter: New Report Exposes Gendered and Racial Disparities in Education Too Often Erased
A new report outlines the obstacles facing Black girls in Americas school systems and demands that advocate, policymakers, and educators do better to foster safe spaces for Black girls to learn and grow.
Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected was released yesterday by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) and Columbia Law Schools Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies. Researchers for the study used data and personal interviews with young women of color in Boston and New York to expose how racism, sexism, and class issues erase Black girls experiences in the school system, limit their educational opportunities, and marginalize their needs, while pushing them into low-wage work, unemployment, and incarceration. Gender and race norms place black girls at risk, said the reports lead author, Kimberlé Crenshaw, in its launching webinar yesterday.
Often, conversations about race in education focus on the achievement gap between Black and white boys, but many efforts refuse to acknowledge that Black girls experience these same gaps between themselves and their white counterparts and often in greater numbers. Sometimes, the magnitude of racial disparities for girls is greater than that of boys, despite the minute attention paid to black girls lives.
The report highlights the negative impacts of zero-tolerance school systems and punitive disciplinary philosophies on girls, such as how law enforcement and security personnel make girls feel less safe. It feels like youre in jail, one interviewee told researchers. Its like they treat you like animals, because they think thats where youre going to end up. Girls interviewed for the study also cited sexual harassment as part of their educational experience, and reported that administrators did little to protect them harassment and violence. Some were punished for engaging in self-defense or asked to leave classrooms where they were being harassed in order to make the disruptions stop.
Black girls are also targeted unfairly by administrators for suspension and expulsion. In the 2011-2012 school year, for example, 12 percent of all African American girls in pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 were suspended, a suspension rate six times the rate for white girls and higher than rates for white, Asian, and Latino boys. In some school districts, all the girls suspended were Black. In one, Black girls were 53 times more likely to be expelled than their white counterparts.
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http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/02/05/black-girls-matter-new-report-exposes-gendered-and-racial-disparities-in-education-too-often-erased/
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