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Black Girls’ Meaning-Making of School Discipline in Cincinnati

Miles, Brittney
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8496-9702
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617106372110342

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2021, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Sociology.
The use of zero-tolerance in schools has made these institutions begin to function more like prisons. Zero-tolerance punishments in school discipline include suspension, expulsion, and other out-of-school placements. Educational inequality shapes and manifests in school discipline disparities and opportunity gaps that reinforce performance variances around race. In 2017, Black youth in Cincinnati schools were 6.6 times more likely to be suspended than their white peers. In response to this disparity, I broadly ask how do Black girls make sense of school discipline? With data from 3 focus groups (and 2 individual interviews) with 18 Black girls in 7th-12th grade, I explore school discipline in the Greater Cincinnati Area along axes of race, class, gender, dis/ability, and sexuality. This project deconstructs the dichotomy between girls who are not disciplined and those who are disciplined to consider the overall impact of the violence taking place in schools. The racialized and gendered knowledges of Black girls are a necessary force in reimagining schools as sites of liberation, learning, and uplift.
Derrick Brooms, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Annulla Linders, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
85 p.
Sociology
Black girls; school discipline; educational inequality; anti-Blackness; students

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  • Miles, B. (2021). Black Girls’ Meaning-Making of School Discipline in Cincinnati [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617106372110342

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Miles, Brittney. Black Girls’ Meaning-Making of School Discipline in Cincinnati. 2021. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617106372110342.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Miles, Brittney. "Black Girls’ Meaning-Making of School Discipline in Cincinnati." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617106372110342

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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