Bagget and Andrzejewski document the harms we do to students through racialized discipline, how students and educators resist, and how we can reform and repair our schools. Their argument is thorough, well-supported, and balanced. It shares an unflinching view of the humanity of students who resist and endure a system of school discipline built on white supremacy.

Aaron Kupchik, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware

Hannah Carson Baggett and Carey E. Andrzejewski dare to tell the story of the school/prison nexus in Alabama. Given the fact that this happens in the state with the highest rate of prison deaths in the country, they offer a challenge to those who say they are concerned with justice: we will either accept the violence of white supremacy against the Black body in schools as truth or engage in practices that actively seek to dismantle and abolish a system centered in human subjugation and isolation.

David Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago