Monique Morris at her TED Talk on why black girls are targeted for punishment at school (Dr.

The latter passage also served as an excellent segue into the overall theme the criminalization of black girls as a result of inadequate schooling.ĭr. Monique Morris is a well-known black woman and a prominent civil rights scholar. After a quick Google search, my suspicions were confirmed. The quote is important because it provides enough information that I can safely assume from the use of the pronoun our and Morris' clear attachment to black girls that Morris herself is black. This quote discusses how the government's solution to it's problems is to place more security officers everywhere. For example, Morris writes that our society '.increases the surveillance of the homes where our families live, the communities where our children play, and the schools where our children are educated' (2). The introduction also lends the reader a bit more information about the author. She hides her empathy for the struggles black girls face behind evidence that proves how difficult it is for black girls to get a good education. Morris is incredibly passionate about equal treatment for black girls, and her love and appreciation for black girls is apparent. The emotion contained in this book becomes clear as the foreword ends with the phrase 'it is a love story' when referring to the book (xvii). If I was going to have to read a nonfiction book I wanted to read something that was not simply a collection of meaningless facts, I wanted to read something real, something raw with emotion, and Pushout has so far exceeded those expectations. The introduction begins with a moving account of a fourteen-year-old girl who was the victim of police brutality at her school it is what initially drew me to the book. In this post I will be analyzing the argument she makes throughout the beginning of the novel.

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