Schooling Against the Prison: Education, Imagination, and the Promise of Abolition (Race and Education)

This title, Schooling Against the Prison, is the latest title to be released in our flagship Race and Education series.It also takes the honor as the first title to be released as part of HEP's trade series, 8 Story St. A bold abolitionist manifesto that exposes the carceral logics of schooling and challenges us to redesign discipline, space, language, and imagination so education serves freedom rather than control We are living in the age of incarceration-and nowhere is its grip more tightly held than inside our schools.In Schooling Against the Prison, Marc Lamont Hill examines how American schools have been designed from the ground up to serve as extensions of the carceral state, rife with policed hallways, zero-tolerance codes, test-obsessed classrooms, and discipline systems that mirror the logic of the prison. Drawing on education history, policy, and real-world stories that tell of the shocking reality of carceral excess-from kindergarten "tantrums" treated as crimes, to parents