Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run; she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. Just 16 percent of female students; Black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest. The first trade book to tell these untold stories; Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies; practices; and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy; unstable; and often unsafe futures. For four years Monique W. Morris; author of Black Stats; chronicled the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood; highly judged—by teachers; administrators; and the justice system—and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Morris shows how; despite obstacles; stigmas; stereotypes; and despair; black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms; juvenile facilities; and beyond.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Holowchak relies on some really poor logic and never gets around to confronting facts that ...By JimpopsWhile I don't have a dog in this fight (i.e.; I am interested in but agnostic about the TJ/Hemings liaison); this book - which is essentially a critique; and a very personal (at times; ad hominem; critique at that; of three authors who believe there was a liaison - is perhaps the least persuasive book I have ever read. Aside from his sophomoric attempt to impress the reader with his (or his Thesaurus') written vocabulary; Holowchak relies on some extremely poor logic and never gets around to confronting facts that tend to establish that there was a sexual relationship between TJ and Sally. Reading both this book and Annette Gordon-Reed's Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy; Ms. Gordon-Reed "wins" hands down. (And; BTW; I am a 68 year old white male. Again; I don't have a dog in this fight.)13 of 20 people found the following review helpful. Framing a Legend; Exposing the Distorted History of Thomas Jefferson and Sally HemingsBy Herbert BargerA great independent study that tackles the untruths of Monticello; Prof. Annette Gordon-Reed; Prof. Peter Onuf; Madison Hemings; Prof; Andrew Burstein; Prof. Ellen Lewis; Fawn Brodie and others distorting the real truth of the controversy.You should be very much concerned for truth because the above named distortthe truth and you may wish to contact those who distort and lie about our country's history and you should know who they are.Professor Andrew Holowchak is extremely knowledgeable of his subject and has spent much research to alert his fellow citizens of the danger of such unreputable reportings by those mentioned above.Read about how these people are contaminating your country's history. Some of their books are being used in our country's universities. As an assistant to Dr Foster on the DNA study; I could add much more inside information that transpired between myself; he and Nature. NOTHING proves Thomas Jefferson fathered any slave child. This is all a SLAVERY topic issue.Please read the several books on the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society (www.tjheritage.org); web page.I urge all to read this and the other books mentioned.Herb BargerFounder; Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society (www.tjheritage.org)www.jeffersondnastudy.com22 of 25 people found the following review helpful. It never happenedBy David adamsFraming a Legend is not the first book to dissect and discredit the theory that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings (notably "in Defense of Thomas Jeferson " by William Hyland in 2009 is also a noble effort ) but perhaps the most direct attack on specific proponents of the theory; notably the books by Fawn Brodie; Gordon-Reed and Andrew Burstein. One would certainly like to hear those authors response to Dr. Holowchak; but that is probably unlikely. The best summary that can be made about the topic is that nobody really knows and probably will never know. As far as Dr. Holowchak is concerned; he seems to be making an excellent case that it is more unlikely than likely that no such liaison ever happened. i would agree that the weight of the evidence ;; is that it never happened
