The School to Prison Pipeline is a systemic process usually put into racial and class contexts due to how it disproportionately affects poor students of color. Poor students of color are systematically marginalized and dehumanized, often finding themselves pushed towards deviancy and a criminal lifestyle within the school system. However, the policies and practices that lead to such a pipeline are not exclusive to just poor students of color, but marginalized groups in general. Shannon D. Snapp discusses in "Messy, Butch, and Queer: LGBTQ Youth and the School-to-Prison Pipeline" how lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, queers, and questioning (LGBTQ) and gender non-conforming youth are pushed out of school and into the criminal justice
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Discussed in Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, a double consciousness is an identity pressed upon an individual in addition to the identity they have for themselves. In this case, not only is a student LGBTQ and a student, but they are also dangerous, deviant, and a risk to those around them more than those around them are a risk to them- blaming the victim. The idea that LGBTQ members are deviant is a consciousness forced upon them, and an important concept to explore if an understanding of the whole situation can be …show more content…
Yes, the article addresses that there is stigma and prejudice towards these youth, but how did it come about? What double-consciousness is being pressed upon these youth that makes them a target? The article discussed how gender non-conformists dressed in a way that appeared threatening to certain administrators, and same-sex affection might appear abnormal to some spectators, but an in-depth review of this double consciousness and how it affects those with it would be both insightful and helpful for this discussion. An analysis of the factors within their double consciousness and how it relates to the prison pipeline is absent, and this detracts from the article 's effectiveness in explaining the entire
Discussed in Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, a double consciousness is an identity pressed upon an individual in addition to the identity they have for themselves. In this case, not only is a student LGBTQ and a student, but they are also dangerous, deviant, and a risk to those around them more than those around them are a risk to them- blaming the victim. The idea that LGBTQ members are deviant is a consciousness forced upon them, and an important concept to explore if an understanding of the whole situation can be …show more content…
Yes, the article addresses that there is stigma and prejudice towards these youth, but how did it come about? What double-consciousness is being pressed upon these youth that makes them a target? The article discussed how gender non-conformists dressed in a way that appeared threatening to certain administrators, and same-sex affection might appear abnormal to some spectators, but an in-depth review of this double consciousness and how it affects those with it would be both insightful and helpful for this discussion. An analysis of the factors within their double consciousness and how it relates to the prison pipeline is absent, and this detracts from the article 's effectiveness in explaining the entire