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This cutting-edge collection of essays presents to the reader leading voices within food justice, environmental justice, and school to prison pipeline movements. While many schools, community organizers, professors, politicians, unions, teachers, parents, youth, social workers, and youth advocates are focusing on curriculum, discipline policies, policing practices, incarceration demographics, and diversity of staff, the authors of this book argue that even if all those issues are addressed, healthy food and living environment are fundamental to the emancipation of youth. This book is for anyone who wants to truly understand the school to prison pipeline as well as those interested in peace, social justice, environmentalism, racial justice, youth advocacy, transformative justice, food, veganism, and economic justice.
List of contents
Foreword.- David Pellow.- Preface.- lauren Ornelas.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: From Addressing the Problems to the Solutions of the School-to-Prison Pipeline through a Food and Environmental Justice Perspective.- PART ONE: TRANSFORMING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.- 1. They Got Me Trapped: Structural Inequality and Racism in Space and Place within Urban School System Design.- Travis T. Harris and Daniel White Hodge.- 2. The Rochester River School: Humane Education to Confront Educational Injustice and the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Rochester, New York.- Joel Helfrich.- 3. Where We Live, Play and Study: Assessing Multiple Adverse Impacts of Schools near Environmental Hazards.- K. Animashaun Ducre.- 4. School Yards, Gardens, and Community Parks.- Carol Mendoza Fisher.- 5. Education that Supports all Students: Food Sovereignty and Urban Education in Detroit.- John Lupinacci.- PART TWO: TRANSFORMING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.- 6. An Environmental Justice Critique of Carceral Anti-Ecology.- Shamelle Richards and Devon G. Peña.- 7. Industrialized Bodies: Women, Food, and Environmental Justice in the Criminal Justice System.- Caitlin Watkins.- 8. Mothers, Toxicity, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline.- Sarah Conrad.- 9. Hip Hop, Food Justice, and Environmental Justice.- Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, Don C. Sawyer III, and Michael Cermak.- Afterword.- Frank Hernandez.
About the author
Anthony J. Nocella II is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Fort Lewis College, USA; Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies; Editor of the
Peace Studies Journal; and National Co-Coordinator of Save the Kids.
K. Animashaun Ducre is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University, USA and author of
A Place We Call Home: Gender, Race, and Justice in Syracuse (2012). She also served as 2011 Fulbright Scholar in Trinidad and Tobago.
John Lupinacci teaches pre-service teachers and graduate students in the Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education program at Washington State University, USA. He has taught at the secondary level in Detroit and is co-author of the book EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities (2011).
Summary
This cutting-edge collection of essays presents to the reader leading voices within food justice, environmental justice, and school to prison pipeline movements. While many schools, community organizers, professors, politicians, unions, teachers, parents, youth, social workers, and youth advocates are focusing on curriculum, discipline policies, policing practices, incarceration demographics, and diversity of staff, the authors of this book argue that even if all those issues are addressed, healthy food and living environment are fundamental to the emancipation of youth. This book is for anyone who wants to truly understand the school to prison pipeline as well as those interested in peace, social justice, environmentalism, racial justice, youth advocacy, transformative justice, food, veganism, and economic justice.
