Cover -- Willful Defiance -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Willful Defiance -- Introduction: Confronting the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Journeys to Racial Justice Organizing -- 1. The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Criminalization as Racial Domination and Control -- 2. "Nationalizing Local Struggles": Community Organizing and Social Justice Movements -- 3. "There Is No National without the Local": Building a National Movement Grounded in Local Organizing -- 4. The Prevention of Schoolhouse to Jailhouse: Intergenerational Community Organizing in Mississippi -- 5. Challenging Criminalization in Los Angeles: Building a Broad and Deep Movement to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline -- 6. From the Local to the State: Youth-Led Organizing in Chicago -- 7. The Movement Spreads: Organizing in Small Cities, Suburbs, and the South -- 8. The Movement Expands: Police-Free Schools, Black Girls Matter, and Restorative Justice -- Conclusion: Organizing and Movement Building for Racial and Educational Justice -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Community Engaged Research Methods -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary
In Willful Defiance, by Mark R. Warren tells the story of how Black and Brown parents and students organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline in their local schools and built a movement that spread across the country. He examines organizing processes in Mississippi, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other localities, showing how parents and students of color changed exclusionary discipline policies that suspend and expel students of color at disproportionate rates and policing practices that lead students into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The book documents the struggle to buil
