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Abstract
In this Essay, I argue that, in urban metros like Chicago, poor Black children are victims of not just gun violence but also the structural violence of systemic educational stratification. Structural violence occurs in the context of domination, where poor Black children are marginalized and isolated, vulnerable to lifelong sub-ordination across many domains. Specifically, I argue that U.S. education policy subjects poor Black children to the violence of intergenerational subordination by trapping children behind residential barbed wire fences, starving their schools of necessary resources, and abusively dangling powerless community control.
Recommended Citation
Clark, LaToya Baldwin
(2022)
"Barbed Wire Fences: The Structural Violence of Education Law,"
University of Chicago Law Review: Vol. 89:
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2, Article 8.
Available at:
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclrev/vol89/iss2/8