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Title Race, education, and reintegrating formerly incarcerated citizens : counterstories and counterspaces / edited by John R. Chaney, Joni Schwartz
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 190 pages)
Series Critical perspectives on race, crime, and justice
Critical perspectives on race, crime, and justice.
Contents Foreword; Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction; Part I: Context, Critical Race Theory, and Education's Role in Reentry; 1 Schooling for Prison, Incarceration for Poverty; 2 Education Outside of the Box; 3 Do I Want to Be a 30 Percenter or 70 Percenter?; 4 No Dismantling with the Master's Tools; 5 Writing Into Being and Post Incarceration; Part II: Counterstories; 6 On the Other Side; 7 Mentoring; 8 Short-Term to Long-Term Incarceration and Educational Reengagement; 9 A New Normal; 10 Epiphany of a Prodigal Son; Part III: Counterspaces; 11 Returning to School after Incarceration
12 Infinite Space and Common Ground13 A College Initiative Success Story; 14 High School Equivalency as Counterspace; 15 Creating Counterspaces in College; Index; About the Contributors
Summary This book combines scholarly research with real-life testimonials to explore the nexus of Critical Race Theory and education. It offers a serious and responsible analysis of how racial practices in America impact the effectiveness of education as a reentry tool to reverse recidivism and mass incarceration
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 05, 2017)
Subject Prisoners -- Education -- United States
Ex-convicts -- Education -- United States
Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States
Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization -- United States
Education and crime -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation
Education and crime
Ex-convicts -- Education
Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization
Prisoners -- Education
Strafentlassener
Resozialisierung
Rassendiskriminierung
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Chaney, John R., 1951- editor.
Schwartz, Joni, editor
LC no. 2017021003
ISBN 9781498540919
1498540910
1498540902
9781498540902
9781498540926
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