ERIC Number: EJ1350096
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Nov
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0042-0972
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1960
Deep Punishment and Internal Colony: A Critical Analysis of In-School Suspension Rooms inside Two Racially "Integrated" Middle Schools
Wiley, Kathryn E.; Townsend, Cierra; Trujillo, Miguel; Anyon, Yolanda
Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, v54 n4 p576-594 Nov 2022
In this article, we examine an overlooked issue in research on school discipline: in-school suspension. Using data collected through observational methods, we present a detailed description and analysis of two in-school suspension rooms. These rooms operated in prominent, racially diverse middle schools in a large urban district. Applying critical theories of race and social exclusion, we reveal the ways that in-school suspension rooms constituted "deep," exclusionary discipline and cast "wide discipline nets" that disproportionately impacted Black students and Latino students for minor reasons and provided few educational opportunities. Due to the racialized nature of in-school suspension in otherwise "integrated" schools, the rooms themselves became segregated "internal racial colonies" with implications for the racial distribution of education as a social, political, and economic good.
Descriptors: Discipline, Suspension, Middle Schools, Disproportionate Representation, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Racism, Racial Segregation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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