Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school.



Just sixteen percent of female students, black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest. The first trade book to tell thes...