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Fifteen-year-old Diamond discontinued going to class the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had overlooked: she had been trafficked for sex. After months away from home, she was caught and sent to a detention center for violating a judge order to wait college. Just 16 percent of feminine students, black women constitute more than one-third of all women with a school-related arrest. The first trade booklet to share these untold reports, Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and helps the growing movements to address the policies, techniques, and social illiteracy that force many students out of college and into unhealthy, unstable, and frequently unsafe futures. For four years, Monique W. Morris chronicled the encounters of black women across the country whose complex lives are misinterpreted, highly judged - by teachers, administrators, and the justice system - and degraded by the institutions recharged with assisting them flourish. Morris shows how, despite obstacles, black women still find ways to inhale and exhale remarkable dignity to their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond.
