Racism is a mainstay at any school simply because the school is a microcosm of the larger macrocosm. Society is racist. Thus, schools are racist too. Consequently, even though racism is woven throughout this literature review (i.e. the definition of racial harassment and verbal bullying or the story of a white girl saying her Black classmate’s skin was “the color of poop”), I wanted to specifically address anti-blackness. Brady (2014) defines anti-blackness as “the paradigm that binds blackness and death together so much that one cannot think of one without the other.” Blackness and death walk hand-in-hand. For instance, a Black person is shot by a cop every twenty-eight hours in America (Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, 2013) and many
