Table of Contents

Foreword by Cheryl E. Matias

Prologue

Introduction: Any Given Day in an Alabama Alternative School

Part I: Removal

Chapter 1: Methods of Removal written with Nicholas P. Triplett

Chapter 2: Motives for Removal

Chapter 3: A Portrait of Removal – Cotton County Schools written with Jasmine S. Betties and Sangah Lee

Part II: Resistance

Chapter 4: Removed for Resistance

Chapter 5: Who are the “Bad Kids”?: Portraits of Alternative School Students written with Sean A. Forbes

Chapter 6: Resistance and School-Based Practitioners

Chapter 7: Hitting Kids “Just Doesn’t Sit Well”: Resistance to Corporal Punishment written with Benjamin Arnberg

Part III: Reform

Chapter 8: Efforts Toward Reform

Chapter 9: A Portrait of Reform in Timber County written with Nanyamka A. Shukura, Sangah Lee, and Jasmine S. Betties

Part IV: Reparations

Chapter 10: The 4th R

Chapter 11: Self-Portraiture, Problematics Positions, and Politics

About the Author

Hannah Carson Baggett is associate professor of educational research in the College of Education at Auburn University.

Carey E. Andrzejewski is professor of social foundations of education and educational research in the College of Education at Auburn University.

Reviews

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*