Irby, D. J. (2017). The indignities on which the school-to-prison pipeline is built: Life stories of two formerly incarcerated black male school-leavers. (pp. 15-39) Emerald Publishing Limited.

Abstract In this chapter, I present narratives of two Black men who represent a population of people who are often talked about but seldom heard from in school-to-prison pipeline research. To analyze their stories, I employed a framework that centers on understanding human dignity and the conditions, circumstances, and experiences that threatened it. I found that their sense of self was eroded by moments of personal loss, disposal, and ways that even well-intentioned people marked them as “problems.” I explore how their eroded sense of self led them to engage in disruptive and destructive behaviors. I conclude by discussing the importance of supplementing school-to-prison pipeline research with Black boys’ and men’s first-hand accounts of their own experiences as a way of humanizing the primary subjects of this burgeoning area of education research.

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http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S2051-231720160000004003