Dissecting Institutional Racism : Restoring Educational Justice

By Lasha Pierce, MD

  • African American pre-schoolers are far more likely to be suspended than white children.
  • African American children make 18 percent of the pre-school population but represent
    almost half of all out-of-school suspensions.
  • In grades K-12, African American students are more likely to be suspended, expelled,referred to police, restrained, placed in seclusion.
  • African American juveniles are more likely to be charged as adults
  • “Black-sounding” names are less likely to be hired
  • Racial gaps exist in pay, home ownership (redlining), net worth, traffic stops, arrests and
    incarceration, jury selection, sentencing, and the death penalty.
  1. Look at who is considered to be gifted and talented. Who is typically awarded advanced placement status? Who is most often referred to special education?
  1. Change the construction of whiteness as an unmarked narrative, invisible category, and white privilege as unearned and un-meritocratic.
  2. Reverse the Underfunding Majority Black and Brown Schools. (limits resources such as books/computers/teachers, limited library access, limited janitorial staff, no enrichment courses, poor grounds upkeep, limited funds for heating/air conditioning)

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