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Compulsory

Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School

A groundbreaking look at America'due south public education system through the lens of prison schooling

An institutional ethnography of race and gender ability in one juvenile prison schoolhouse system, Compulsory has major implications for public instruction. Through an analysis of the experiences of prisoners, teachers, land officials, mothers, and more, it provides insight into the broad compulsory systems of schooling, asking readers to reconsider understandings of the part, purpose, and value of state schooling today.

Fiercely rendered, Compulsory is the volume 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 mural punctuated by deeply racialized and heteropatriachal practices of removal and premature death, Sabina E. Vaught's necessary and poetic writing moves activist scholarship into needed and new terrains and pushes readers to mourn, to analyze, and to build struggles for radical freedom that leave no ane behind.

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Erica R. Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University

"This is an American story, unsettled by contradictions, constituted by unresolvable loss and open-ended hope, produced through vicious exclusivities and persistent insurgencies. This is the story of Lincoln prison." In her Introduction, Sabina E. Vaught passionately details why the bailiwick of prisons and prison house schooling is so important. An unprecedented institutional ethnography of race and gender ability 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 immature Black men from their homes and subjects them to the abuses of captivity. She explores the diverse legal and ideological forces shaping juvenile prison house and prison schooling, and examines how these forces are mechanized across multiple country apparatuses, not least school. Cartoon richly on ethnographic information, she tells stories that map the repression of rightless, incarcerated youth, whose country captivity is the contemporary expression of age-one-time practices of child removal and counterinsurgency.

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

Sabina East. Vaught is associate professor of education and manager of the Educational Studies Programme and the Program in Women'southward, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Tufts University. She is author of Racism, Public Schooling, and the Entrenchment of White Supremacy.

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 upwardly and their loved ones—negotiate, and often shatteringly resist, these powerlines. Situating the 'prison classroom' within a carceral mural punctuated past deeply racialized and heteropatriachal practices of removal and premature death, Sabina E. Vaught's necessary and poetic writing moves activist scholarship into needed and new terrains and pushes readers to mourn, to clarify, and to build struggles for radical freedom that get out no i behind.

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Erica R. Meiners, Northeastern Illinois Academy