Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

US Schools are a “Carceral” and “Punitive Landscape”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
16 Sep 2019
🖨️ Print Article

For students of color in the US, schooling has long been a “carceral condition,” said Connie Wun, a researcher and advocate for women and girls, who wrote an influential article titled, “Racialized and Gendered Violence Permeates School Discipline.” “We now have to think about the architecture of the school as a punitive landscape where students are subjected to surveillance cameras” and more police on campus,” said Wun.

Anti-Black Racism

Related Podcasts

 Police, Prisons and Prosecutors just Create More Victims
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Police, Prisons and Prosecutors just Create More Victims
23 February 2021
“We believe that all forms of law enforcement” in the US “are rooted in systems of violence,” said Samah Sisay, an organizer with
 Anti-Black Racism Is Environmental Hazard
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Black Racism Is Environmental Hazard
02 February 2021
Environmental justice should be put at the cutting edge of the social justice movement, said Dr Ugo Edu, an African American Studi
 Racism and Violence Against Blacks Endemic to US
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Racism and Violence Against Blacks Endemic to US
01 December 2020
Critical Race Theory holds that racism is endemic to US society, while Afropessimism and Social Death “suggests that, regardless of what Black bodi

More Stories


  • Sabotaging Apartheid
    Ronnie Kasrils , Marcus Barnett
    Sabotaging Apartheid
    08 Nov 2017
    “We got into what I call a Faustian pact with big business from Mandela onwards.”
  • The Eritrea “Massacre” That Never Happened
    Mela Ghebremedhin
    The Eritrea “Massacre” That Never Happened
    08 Nov 2017
    “The entire incident lasted several minutes, with no casualties or injuries.”
  • Youth Incarceration in the United States, Explained
    Prince Shakur
    Youth Incarceration in the United States, Explained
    08 Nov 2017
    “First Lady Hillary Clinton referred to certain youths as ‘super-predators.’”
  • Black Bolsheviks and White Lies: Reflections on the Black Radical Tradition
    Peta Lindsay
    Black Bolsheviks and White Lies: Reflections on the Black Radical Tradition
    08 Nov 2017
    “American blacks needed no outsiders to awaken their sense of the tremendous contradiction between America's professed beliefs and its actual practices.”
  • Puerto Rico Getting the Detroit Treatment
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Puerto Rico Getting the Detroit Treatment
    07 Nov 2017
    Puerto Rico, a hurricane-ravaged colony of the U.S., has been subjected to much the same financial dictatorship as Detroit, a Black internal colony, said Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us