Introduction: Prison Nation & the School-Prison Nexus
Chapter 1: Public Schools and the Criminalization of Difference-Destruction and Creation
Chapter 2: Criminal Literacies and the Redemptive Powers of Juvenile Incarceration
Chapter 3: Release & Resistance-Unprepared Exits & Radical Imaginations
Chapter 4: Expansive Justice and a Pedagogy of Resistance
Appendix: Mapping the Margins & Methodological Pluralism
Subini Ancy Annamma, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Kansas, USA. She was recently awarded the 2017 American Education Research Association (AERA) Division G Early Career Award and the Western Social Science Association (WSSA) Outstanding Emerging Scholar Award. She is a past winner of the AERA Dissertation Minority Fellowship in Education Research Award, former Co-Program Chair for the 2016 annual conference of the Critical Race Studies Association in Education, and is the co-editor of two books.
‘The Pedagogy of Pathologization uncovers stories behind the
statistics which place Black girls labeled with disabilities among
students experiencing the highest rates of pushout in schools
nationwide. In a compelling account that is at once loving,
eloquent, insightful, scholarly, and profoundly affecting, the
author brings to life the voices and experiences of the young women
she partners with in this study of policing across institutions
that combines into a seamless web of criminalization and exclusion
for Black disabled girls. She also illuminates girls' resilience
and resistance in the face of the absurd and tragic abandonment and
punishment they face for surviving multiple challenges - and the
ways in which educators and concerned adults can intervene in
solidarity and love. An essential contribution to conversations
about education, policing and mass incarceration.’—Andrea J.
Ritchie, Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and
Criminalization, Barnard Center for Research on Women, author of
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of
Color. ‘Pedagogy of Pathologization sheds new light on the
school-to-prison pipeline by focusing on the experiences of the
most marginalized students –dis/abled girls of color. Based on her
work in juvenile incarceration education sites, Subini Ancy Annamma
uses an intersectional lens to vividly reveal how racism, ableism,
and carceral logics work together to criminalize and punish these
children and calls us to reimagine the classroom as a place of
liberation. A must read for everyone seeking to understand and
dismantle the carceral state.’ —Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing
the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.‘The
Pedagogy of Pathologization animates theories of intersectionality,
critical race theory, and disability studies via the lived
experiences of these young girls who are subject to a litany of
violent practices abetted by the school-to-prison pipeline. Not
only does Annamma document practices of resiliency exhibited by
these girls, but also imagines what structural interventions are
needed to resist the pathological criminalization of young people
in our society. I can see this book becoming a classic because it
is one of the first books to engage with this unique confluence of
theories, loci, and subjects.’—Nirmala Erevelles, Professor Social
and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Alabama,
USA‘Annamma passionately brings to life the hyper-marginalized
realities of incarcerated girls of color who have been categorized
as disabled. Using Discrit analysis, the author vividly centers the
young voices ---illustrating their efforts to grapple with and
resist their multiple oppressions whether emanating from home,
school, or the criminal justice system. Annamma highlights their
moving insights about their situations and caring natures that need
to be nurtured. For these young people to transcend potentially
bleak futures requires personal and financial investment from all
of us on the local, state, and national levels.’—Adrien Katherine
Wing, Associate Dean & Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law,
University of Iowa College of Law, USA‘The Pedagogy of
Pathologization is an amazing original work. With Dis/ability
Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) as her framework, Professor Annamma
has provided us with an explanation of how society pathologizes
female Students of Color. She takes us to that place where we
understand the multiple forms of marginality these young women
experience in the everyday. In this multiple marginal place, she
reminds me of how W.E.B. DuBois introduced me to "double
consciousness," "two-ness," and the "veil." Annamma has written a
remarkable, compelling, and insightful book.’—Daniel G. Solórzano,
Professor of Social Science & Comparative Education, UCLA Graduate
School of Education & Information Studies, USA‘This book is
sometimes a mirror reflecting back what we've wrought by infusing
education with a culture of punishment; and sometimes a maze,
layering prisons on top of schools, racism on top of sexism on top
of ableism. More than anything, though, Subini Annamma offers us a
flashlight, carefully picking out ways to repair and move
forward.’—Ian F. Haney López, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law,
UC Berkeley and Director, Racial Politics Project, Haas Institute
for a Fair and Inclusive Society‘Annamma is one of the most
important voices among a new generation of critical scholars who
are challenging conventional wisdom and exposing the vicious
inequities that shape the everyday world of contemporary schooling.
The study advances our understanding of ‘intersectionality’ as a
concept and as a lived reality. Written with flair, sensitivity and
passion, this book explores the intimate workings of the
school-prison pipeline from the inside; it is essential reading for
anyone concerned with justice and education.’—David Gillborn,
Director of Research, School of Education and Director, Centre for
Research in Race & Education (CRRE), University of Birmingham,
UK'Finally, a book that I can point well-known Black academic
scholars like Michelle Alexander, Monique Morris, Mark Anthony
Neal, and more, to learn about the school-to-prison pipeline from
Black and disabled girls of color who are consistently erased from
our books, studies, and conversations on this topic. Just like when
bell hooks and other Black women scholars took on Black and
non-Black male academic scholars about how the absence of Black
women in their work and writings helped to continue to erase Black
women’s experiences, writings, political movement, art and yes,
academic writings in and outside academia, with this book, The
Pedagogy of Pathologization, Annamma steps into this harsh but
needed tradition of not only talking back to Black, women, and
disability academic scholars but to bring in her Black and disabled
community inside of academic walls as she writes what has been left
out– race, gender, and disability inside the school-to-prison
pipeline.'—Leroy F. Moore Jr., Author of Black Disabled Art History
101; Founding Member of the National Black Disabled Coalition ‘The
Pedagogy of Pathologization by Subini Ancy Annamma is a revelation.
It is a must-read for anyone interested in the lives of girls of
color, special education, the school-to-prison pipeline, and
critical race and disability studies. Dr. Annamma connects the real
stories, journeys, and expertise of girls coded as ‘violent’ or
‘difficult’ by educators with a call for a pedagogy of resistance
instead of pathologization and criminalization. The Pedagogy of
Pathologization offers readers a glimpse into the lives of
multiply-marginalized disabled girls of color and centers them in a
way that is all too rare in the education and research
world.’—Alice Wong, Disability Visibility Project®‘For some time,
it has been clear that we not only disproportionately punish the
children with the greatest needs, we also are most likely to punish
them because of their needs. This now includes a tendency to
criminalize children for offenses that were previously not regarded
as criminal offenses. In this important new book Subini Ancy
Annamma shows us how this process is occurring among girls of
color, particular those with disabilities. In this powerful
analysis, readers will learn how some of our most vulnerable
children are being victimized by punitive discipline practices.
Hopefully, this book will serve as a wake up call that we can and
must do better in meeting the needs of these children.’—Pedro A.
Noguera, Distinguished Professor of Education, UCLA Graduate School
of Education & Information Studies, USA'Critical studies of
dis/ability, or DisCrit, is one of the most exciting innovations in
education and allied disciplines. Subini Annamma deftly captures
forms of subordination and superordination in an analysis that
weaves together social relations, like race and gender, within the
carceral state. It is an argument that is both profound and profuse
about the urgency of intervening in the educational system’s
multiple disabling of girls of color. It would be impossible to
ignore the problem any longer after reading this book.'—Zeus
Leonardo, Professor of Education and The Critical Theory Designated
Emphasis, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Author of
Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and
Education
‘The Pedagogy of Pathologization uncovers stories behind the
statistics which place Black girls labeled with disabilities among
students experiencing the highest rates of pushout in schools
nationwide. In a compelling account that is at once loving,
eloquent, insightful, scholarly, and profoundly affecting, the
author brings to life the voices and experiences of the young women
she partners with in this study of policing across institutions
that combines into a seamless web of criminalization and exclusion
for Black disabled girls. She also illuminates girls' resilience
and resistance in the face of the absurd and tragic abandonment and
punishment they face for surviving multiple challenges - and the
ways in which educators and concerned adults can intervene in
solidarity and love. An essential contribution to conversations
about education, policing and mass incarceration.’—Andrea J.
Ritchie, Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and
Criminalization, Barnard Center for Research on Women, author of
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of
Color. ‘Pedagogy of Pathologization sheds new light on the
school-to-prison pipeline by focusing on the experiences of the
most marginalized students –dis/abled girls of color. Based on her
work in juvenile incarceration education sites, Subini Ancy Annamma
uses an intersectional lens to vividly reveal how racism, ableism,
and carceral logics work together to criminalize and punish these
children and calls us to reimagine the classroom as a place of
liberation. A must read for everyone seeking to understand and
dismantle the carceral state.’ —Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing
the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.‘The
Pedagogy of Pathologization animates theories of intersectionality,
critical race theory, and disability studies via the lived
experiences of these young girls who are subject to a litany of
violent practices abetted by the school-to-prison pipeline. Not
only does Annamma document practices of resiliency exhibited by
these girls, but also imagines what structural interventions are
needed to resist the pathological criminalization of young people
in our society. I can see this book becoming a classic because it
is one of the first books to engage with this unique confluence of
theories, loci, and subjects.’—Nirmala Erevelles, Professor Social
and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Alabama,
USA‘Annamma passionately brings to life the hyper-marginalized
realities of incarcerated girls of color who have been categorized
as disabled. Using Discrit analysis, the author vividly centers the
young voices ---illustrating their efforts to grapple with and
resist their multiple oppressions whether emanating from home,
school, or the criminal justice system. Annamma highlights their
moving insights about their situations and caring natures that need
to be nurtured. For these young people to transcend potentially
bleak futures requires personal and financial investment from all
of us on the local, state, and national levels.’—Adrien Katherine
Wing, Associate Dean & Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law,
University of Iowa College of Law, USA‘The Pedagogy of
Pathologization is an amazing original work. With Dis/ability
Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) as her framework, Professor Annamma
has provided us with an explanation of how society pathologizes
female Students of Color. She takes us to that place where we
understand the multiple forms of marginality these young women
experience in the everyday. In this multiple marginal place, she
reminds me of how W.E.B. DuBois introduced me to "double
consciousness," "two-ness," and the "veil." Annamma has written a
remarkable, compelling, and insightful book.’—Daniel G. Solórzano,
Professor of Social Science & Comparative Education, UCLA Graduate
School of Education & Information Studies, USA‘This book is
sometimes a mirror reflecting back what we've wrought by infusing
education with a culture of punishment; and sometimes a maze,
layering prisons on top of schools, racism on top of sexism on top
of ableism. More than anything, though, Subini Annamma offers us a
flashlight, carefully picking out ways to repair and move
forward.’—Ian F. Haney López, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law,
UC Berkeley and Director, Racial Politics Project, Haas Institute
for a Fair and Inclusive Society‘Annamma is one of the most
important voices among a new generation of critical scholars who
are challenging conventional wisdom and exposing the vicious
inequities that shape the everyday world of contemporary schooling.
The study advances our understanding of ‘intersectionality’ as a
concept and as a lived reality. Written with flair, sensitivity and
passion, this book explores the intimate workings of the
school-prison pipeline from the inside; it is essential reading for
anyone concerned with justice and education.’—David Gillborn,
Director of Research, School of Education and Director, Centre for
Research in Race & Education (CRRE), University of Birmingham,
UK'Finally, a book that I can point well-known Black academic
scholars like Michelle Alexander, Monique Morris, Mark Anthony
Neal, and more, to learn about the school-to-prison pipeline from
Black and disabled girls of color who are consistently erased from
our books, studies, and conversations on this topic. Just like when
bell hooks and other Black women scholars took on Black and
non-Black male academic scholars about how the absence of Black
women in their work and writings helped to continue to erase Black
women’s experiences, writings, political movement, art and yes,
academic writings in and outside academia, with this book, The
Pedagogy of Pathologization, Annamma steps into this harsh but
needed tradition of not only talking back to Black, women, and
disability academic scholars but to bring in her Black and disabled
community inside of academic walls as she writes what has been left
out– race, gender, and disability inside the school-to-prison
pipeline.'—Leroy F. Moore Jr., Author of Black Disabled Art History
101; Founding Member of the National Black Disabled Coalition ‘The
Pedagogy of Pathologization by Subini Ancy Annamma is a revelation.
It is a must-read for anyone interested in the lives of girls of
color, special education, the school-to-prison pipeline, and
critical race and disability studies. Dr. Annamma connects the real
stories, journeys, and expertise of girls coded as ‘violent’ or
‘difficult’ by educators with a call for a pedagogy of resistance
instead of pathologization and criminalization. The Pedagogy of
Pathologization offers readers a glimpse into the lives of
multiply-marginalized disabled girls of color and centers them in a
way that is all too rare in the education and research
world.’—Alice Wong, Disability Visibility Project®‘For some time,
it has been clear that we not only disproportionately punish the
children with the greatest needs, we also are most likely to punish
them because of their needs. This now includes a tendency to
criminalize children for offenses that were previously not regarded
as criminal offenses. In this important new book Subini Ancy
Annamma shows us how this process is occurring among girls of
color, particular those with disabilities. In this powerful
analysis, readers will learn how some of our most vulnerable
children are being victimized by punitive discipline practices.
Hopefully, this book will serve as a wake up call that we can and
must do better in meeting the needs of these children.’—Pedro A.
Noguera, Distinguished Professor of Education, UCLA Graduate School
of Education & Information Studies, USA'Critical studies of
dis/ability, or DisCrit, is one of the most exciting innovations in
education and allied disciplines. Subini Annamma deftly captures
forms of subordination and superordination in an analysis that
weaves together social relations, like race and gender, within the
carceral state. It is an argument that is both profound and profuse
about the urgency of intervening in the educational system’s
multiple disabling of girls of color. It would be impossible to
ignore the problem any longer after reading this book.'—Zeus
Leonardo, Professor of Education and The Critical Theory Designated
Emphasis, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Author of
Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education
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