

Morris 5,424 ratings, 4.36 average rating, 741 reviews Open Preview Pushout Quotes Showing 1-16 of 16 For Black girls, to be 'ghetto' represents a certain resilience to how poverty has shaped racial and gender oppression. The film features the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality’s groundbreaking research on the sexual abuse to prison pipeline and the adultification of black girls, and the Center’s Executive Director Rebecca Epstein will join Morris for a discussion and Q&A after the screening. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Join author Monique Morris for a screening of her new film “PUSHOUT,” which looks at how the criminalization and miseducation of black girls has led to alarming high school dropout rates and increased entry into the juvenile justice system. Morrisopens her book by describing an incident from the summer of 2015 where 14-year-old Dejerria Becton was physically and verbally assaulted by Corporal Eric Casebolt in McKinney, Texas.


Civil rights protesters proclaim Black Live Matter and urge fellow activists to Say Her Name at the vigils. Pushout Introduction Summary & Analysis Introduction Summary Monique W. 10, Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality will host Monique Morris to screen and discuss her new documentary “PUSHOUT: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools,” based on her book of the same name. Morris’ Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools presents an urgent and timely narrative on the historic cycle of victimization Black girls continue to endure in pursuit of an education.
