We want to saying diane and the pristine for their partnership. A round of applause please. Are also want to note books are for sale following tonights conversation. If you ever doubted those devoted to maintaining hierarchys are rooted in race and sex, reed pushed out. Xi jinping tells us how schools are crushing the spirit and talent this country need getting desperate tonights conversation is syed farook of Field Support for new york public schools, speaking to tonights daughter, dr. Xi jinping. Give these women are real welcome. Tonights conversation would not be complete without hearing voices of young women from dr. Morriss research. Actress goldie christina, but we at present pushout the criminalization of black girls in schools. [applause] this is the cry, was thrown to the ground and physically and verbally assaulted after she refused to leave her friend at the enforcement of a Law Enforcement officer that went viral. Pushed her face into the ground as she, a bikini clad teenager who presented no physical threat or danger, case full, grinding his knee into her bare skin and restraining her by placing the full weight of his body onto her. The incident was violence and reeked of sexual assault. It was inappropriate, not controlling inconsistent with the Police Apartment policies, training and articulate it practices. The internal scrutiny associated with these actions, the image of her helpless from body under his has become one of the snapshot that call public consciousness to overzealous policing and criminalization of last black youth. The efforts have focused on extreme intolerable cases involving black boys such as Trayvon Martin in florida, a growing number of cases involving black girls reveal what many of us have known for centuries, black girls are impacted by criminalizing policy that random vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, dehumanization and death. 18yearold proctor died in Police Custody after she was arrested for disorderly conduct. In highprofile cases involving boys, girls were right there alongside them. The officers tackled his 14yearold sister to the ground, not only had she just watched her little brother died but she was forced to greet his death from the back seat of a police car. Addressing these narratives from social and political climates, one that is racist for questions of distant, out surveillance of a home where families live or communities where schools where children are educated. Welcome to push out. A conversation with monique morris. As sisters and brothers and Community Leaders were all excited to engage in thoughtful and powerful conversation with monique morris. As we examine the injustice black girls experience in school and beyond, how we change this new narrative. It is my pleasure and honor to introduce dr. Monique morris. Monique morris is an author and social justice caller with 20 years of professional and volunteer experience in areas of education, civil rights, juvenile and social justice. Dr. Morris is the author of africanamericans by numbers in the twentyfirst century, too beautiful for words and pushout the criminalization of black girls in schools, criminalization of black girls in school. She has written articles, check is in the publications on social justice issues and lectured on Research Policies and practices associated with juvenile justice, education land socioeconomic conditions for black girls, women and their families. Dr. Morse is cofounder and president of the National BlackJustice Institute and former Vice President for economic programs, an advocacy, and research at the National Association for the advancement of colored people, for social justice at ucberkeley what coolidge her work as inform development and implementation of improved cultural culturally competent engender responsive continuum of service previews, dr. Morriss research into race, gender, education and justice, to explore the way is black communities and other communities of color are affected by social policies. I think sp for everyone when i thank dr. Morris for writing this book and having an important conversation. Tonight we have the opportunity to ask dr. Moores some questions about the boat, and engage in a conversation with dr. Morris and at the end we will open up to the audience who i know has a lot of questions they would like to ask about the book and some of dr. Morriss thoughts on how to change this narrative. Hi, everybody. Welcome. You referenced Edward Morriss andymac, in the 2007 study found black girls in the classroom perceived as an ladylike and loud. Talk about combating the stereotype of the loud black woman. Interesting how we come to understand the identity of black women and girls. Much of the discussion is centered in a critique of the way in which the black feminist identity has been presented publicly and in our scholarship and consciousness. When i talk about pushout the criminalization of black girls in schools and talk about the politics, practices and prevailing consciousness that underlies how we approach girls, how we understand what theyre capable of, and they ultimately will become. That study is a profound one for me because it does begin 0 to agitate consciousness around how we understand identities as they lined with historically constructed stereotypes especially in this age of social media where means dominate what is occurring. The identity of black girls and women is presented dance consistent with hypersexual, loud and sassy, consistent with being an emasculating in repressions and the latest one, the combination of all three, interpreted in many different ways. The way we misrepresented or misunderstood black women and identity plays into unconscious about how we understand and treat behavior. When girls are asking questions in class or questioning material it is often perceived as an affront to the authority of adults were being combat if or defiant in ways that inconsistent with their true intentions. In some ways given the legacies that accompany the behavioral patterns we see in school, we see how all hypercivilization of black girls prevents responding to trauma and victimization and that is problematic. Im curious how many of you have had a similar experience, does that resonate with you . We had a great conversation even before the session about the conversations that were happening outside the meeting. This will be a platform for a conversation that can affect policy. The next question, the talks about girls, hard violates the dress code and discipline appearance. What huckabee address the racist frescoed for punishing women and house of these girls dress . This is a tricky question about how girls should address. Is interesting, talking about this, revisit why used to dress and when i think of my two daughters and their presentation and recognize much of the way adults enforce the dress code is through a spirit of love. There are places in the country where schools have dress codes that allow natural hair styles to be worn if you are of african descent. No locks, many people in this room would not be able to go to school with our hair the way it is. And obviously, i say this explicitly in the book, those policies need to be removed. Theres no place for regulation of individual cultural practices around hair. Has nothing to do with what is learned. Is disproportion we impacts black girls. The dress code is an interesting piece with a different component because not only foreign is it about girls showing up in short shorts and spaghetti strap tank top, about the policeing and girls bodies in different ways. Much of what i discuss in pushout the criminalization of black girls in schools is related to differential implementation of the dress code. Not necessarily that it exists but it is how adults are enforcing the dress code the renters black girls vulnerable to policing of their bodies. There are girls who tell stories about arriving in school in short shorts. They have a white or aiding counterpart wearing the same shorts but it is a problem on her body. When girls protest against differential treatment the way many girls are inclined to do, they get an additional reprimand. That to me is critical for how we come to understand what the dress codes are intending to do versus what they are actually doing and how we used the dress code to determine who is capable of entering a phase of learning and use it as a way to turn certain populations away. Have a Research Project organization is working on with the Georgetown Law Center of poverty and inequality and having a discussion about School Resource officers and girls of color and went to a Southern City to begin conducting research and many of the Police Officers talk about how they are asked to intervene in dress code violations, in formally engage with girls and interact whether theyre dressing appropriately, some administrators at will turn away if she doesnt come with a pink shirt. In my mind, what are we emphasizing here . We lost prioritization of learning and have come to prioritize enforcement of rules around dress. That is taking from the true intention of schooling. The goal and function of an institution. I talk about what schools are doing in a life of young people. Critical is the understanding of education is a criminal protective factor against contact with the legal system. If that is true, we should be doing everything we need to do to keep girls in school, not find creative ways to turn them away. We are having a conversation about dress code and weather girl has a hat and that is reason to leave we have taken a conversation about the true intention of schools and turned its into something else. Is important to think through the concept as they emerge and examine the function of what schools are. Schools can reinforce social norms and societal norms or engage young people in the practice of learning to combat their oppression. Denise cool centering Critical Thinking, and the knowledge that they need to be productive members of society and citizens in our spaces are not the schools and forcing frescoed and turning people away because theyre showing up with a hat on. For black girls, there are nuances around that because a black girl may show up with hat on because her hair is being berated and for those of us with braids, that can be a two day process. If a girl shows up with a hat on and you have to take off, it is not coming off. Not to be in class because that is an embarrassing situation. We dont have the conversations around cultural competency and unintended, dont even want to say and intended because we have enough information to know about how we are operating. Undesired consequences with implementing frescoed. Dress code. I can tell we have all seen that as parents and educators. Let me tell you a story for every story you told us. Thank you so much for starting that conversation. Indy section asking tough questions, you mention weve given mans world that oppresses strong women. The book talks about white society. What role to black men play in a systematic oppression of black women. Guest i want let me back to answer that question. I was in a detention facility talking to girls while researching pushout the criminalization of black girls in schools. Before i could say much of anything i came in contact with this girl, in her opening question to me, she said you know that song is a mans world . I said yes. She said i dont like that song. I said i dont like it either. Why dont you like it . What does that say to a strong girl like me . I processed that for years, thinking what she was trying to tell me. Processed it with my friends. One of my friends had an interesting perspective. She was telling you to recognize her strength, saying i see you and i want you to see me. I am a strong girl. Like i have feelings. Once i acknowledged that, and saw her, she was able to question whether that song was reinforcing more miss in our society and homes about the locus of power and control. The waste in which our Public Discourse is embraced this idea that in order for the family to the hole, the person to be told there has to be a male presence. This girl did identify as a get a girl, she called herself, and in a detention facility around that, for her she was processing a lot about her identity. One of the things i intentionally do in this space is engage and interstitial lens to understand there are multiple experiences guiding ones system with people and with girls, having to sit in a space where the conversation publicly is about males, the prioritization of dollars in community and programming around the community, the absence of men in conversation about girls was present in her life. To me, played out in her asking that question and the exchange we had about that. When i talk historically, in quotes because in the last ten years, when i have been one of three women asking for question, what about the girls, it is met with silence and there has not been robust engagement among men who engage in that space. In many ways the pushback received his come from men who want me to be quiet while we prioritize the boys. Others in this space to engage the conversation about supporting men and boys. I long said the investment made with black men wasnt necessary investment and important to have the conversation and it continues to be important to have a conversation. It is import to have conversations about women and girls. That is where i have been in this space and where i will be until we bridge conversations about the community share, the surveillance we share and the acknowledgment that while structures are impacting both of us or anyone on the gender continuing in similar ways the impact, responses have to be tailored to those impacts, have to engage in functioning around intersect finality to appreciate there are certain experiences women and girls are facing that do allow us and require us to quickly engage men and bullies and those conversations are not happening. In some communities, i say in pushout the criminalization of black girls in schools i intend this to be the beginning of a more robust conversation engagement around these issues but one of the first things that needs to happen is men need to be able to engage. There are lots at the root of a lot of this is Sexual Victimization of women and girls. Girls most at risk are experiencing multiple forms of and from the songs we sing s 6yearolds, in yards, school campuses, to how we come to engage them as scholars and learners in ways that render them invisible or elevate them to the point we have this really the economists inert of where we see black women as successful, High Achievers on one end and overrepresented among girls pushed out of school and the other end disproportionately represented among girls who are sexually exploited, havent been in school for years in some cases. We havent reconciled this space. Part of that has to do with the absence of a narrative and discussion about the continuing and what role we are playing in facilitating consciousness the leader ignores or only sees success. That is why we are here, were thankful that you were courageous enough to open up this dialogue with pushout the criminalization of black girls in schools. You are the one we have been waiting for to open that dialogue. That is why this book is so popular. I have a chance i thought i would order it and wasnt even in print yet. Probably three four months before it came out, we agree with you and are so thankful were having this conversation. There is a community of mostly women engaged in this work. Before pushout the criminalization of black girls in schools i was involved in some way but as a community we were engaged in conversation. The africanamerican policy forum developed black girls matter and the publisher of the dry road in 2012 on race, gender and the pipeline, the National Womens law center and the Legal Defense fund issued a paper on unlocking opportunities for africanamerican girls, and the human rights, georgetown, poverty and the foundation to produce a report for the present pipeline. Lots of folks have been trying to to engage and to aid little bit but there is still researchers in absence of Critical Engagement around the resources in a way to center black girls in a conversation about the full continuum in a way to assess risk. There are other studies that encourage us all to research. Another piece of the book that is so powerful, about the girls, i would love to hear a little more, tell us a little more about that . Diamond was a young teenager who was in relationship with a much older man, he was her pimp. She was sexually exploited and i met her again in the detention facility. This was a girl with the problematic relationship with schools, who had been moving in and out, havent had the Critical Response to victimization that she needed. We bring desperate search for it. She was spotted on the street by some of her classmates later started to bully her and teach her about being on the streets. The way she put it was they would try to make me fight them. The response was one of conflict and schools failed to recognize the ways in which she had been bullied and capture her as a problematic person who was always fighting. When she had had enough she engaged in an act of vandalism and wrote on the wall which resulted in her expulsion. By her being expelled from school she was in violation of her conditions of probation which required her to go to school so there is a cycle in her case that not only was her victimization not addressed by a mandatory reporting agency that should have recognized this as a function of abuse but the structural Justice System response was to criminalize her and pushed her further away from the institution that could help her here. For her, by the time i met with current engaged with her she was feeling like i need house. I ha. I haveout. I have. I have not been in school. We getting them to engage in ways that were helpful. She was processing in and out and i asked her finally what she need to be in school. She said i need people. Finally i asked aside from a counselor how to use in schools and could better respond to black girls in crisis . Lets take a listen. Usually teachers will only connect with certain students that think they deserve more because they get straight as. Theres a r