Week 9
shadow of the ivory tower
Key Questions
How have universities developed? How has their development impacted cities and communities?
How do universities police students and the broader public?
How does the school-to-prison pipeline criminalize students? What policies and practices are associated with the school-to-prison pipeline?
Required Materials:
Davarian Baldwin, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, “When Universities Swallow Cities”
Davarian Baldwin, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, “The ‘800 Pound Gargoyle’”
Edwin Rios, “How Black Oaklanders Finally Expelled the School Police”
Supplementary Materials:
Davarian Baldwin, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, “The Schools That Ate New York”
Davarian Baldwin, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, “A ‘Phoenix Rising’?”
Davarian Baldwin, “Universities and Cities: Why We Must End the Nonprofit Path to Wealth Hoarding”
Abigail Boggs, Eli Meyerhoff, Nick Mitchell, and Zach Schwartz-Weinstein, “Abolitionist University Studies: An Introduction”
Ashvini Kartik-Narayan, “The Fight Over Chicago’s Largest Private Police Force”
Kristin Henning, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, “Cops in School”
Nancy Heitzeg, The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards, “Criminalized Education: Schoolhouse as Jailhouse”
Annette Fuentes, Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes Jailhouse, “A Brief History of School Violence”
Annette Fuentes, Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes Jailhouse, “Crime and Punishment: The Zero Tolerance Epidemic”
exercise
Engage with the interactive experience created by No Kids In Prison below. What does it look like to imagine an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and youth prisons? How can this process of imagination be situated within the history of youth prisons and the school-to-prison pipeline, along with the lived experience of criminalized youth?