Schooling Against the Prison: Education, Imagination, and the Promise of Abolition (Race and Education)

This title, Schooling Against the Prison, is the latest title to be released in our flagship Race and Education series. It also takes the honor as the first title to be released as part of HEP’s trade series, 8 Story St.A bold abolitionist manifesto that exposes the carceral logics of schooling and challenges us to redesign discipline, space, language, and imagination so education serves freedom rather than controlWe are living in the age of incarceration―and nowhere is its grip more tightly held than inside our schools. In Schooling Against the Prison, Marc Lamont Hill examines how American schools have been designed from the ground up to serve as extensions of the carceral state, rife with policed hallways, zero-tolerance codes, test-obsessed classrooms, and discipline systems that mirror the logic of the prison.In this book, you will learn:How welfare, testing, and child “protection” have been weaponized against marginalized communitiesHow to loosen the prison’s hold on our imaginations and our institutionsHow to replace suspicion and surveillance with care and connection  For educators, citizen advocates, parents, and anyone who refuses to accept punitive culture as common sense, Schooling Against the Prison is both a devastating diagnosis and an invitation to transform schools into places of collective liberation. Read more