Addressing Environmental and Food Justice toward Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Poisoning and Imprisoning Youth [Paperback]

This cutting-edge collection of essays presents to the reader leading voices within food justice, environmental justice, and school to prison pipeline movements. While many schools, community organizers, professors, politicians, unions, teachers, parents, youth, social workers, and youth advocates are focusing on curriculum, discipline policies, policing practices, incarceration demographics, and diversity of staff, the authors of this book argue that even if all those issues are addressed, healthy food and living environment are fundamental to the emancipation of youth. This book is for anyone who wants to truly understand the school to prison pipeline as well as those interested in peace, social justice, environmentalism, racial justice, youth advocacy, transformative justice, food, veganism, and economic justice.

Foreword.- David Pellow.- Preface.- lauren Ornelas.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: From Addressing the Problems to the Solutions of the School-to-Prison Pipeline through a Food and Environmental Justice Perspective.- PART ONE: TRANSFORMING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.- 1. They Got Me Trapped: Structural Inequality and Racism in Space and Place within Urban School System Design.- Travis T. Harris and Daniel White Hodge.- 2. The Rochester River School: Humane Education to Confront Educational Injustice and the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Rochester, New York.- Joel Helfrich.- 3. Where We Live, Play and Study: Assessing Multiple Adverse Impacts of Schools near Environmental Hazards.- K. Animashaun Ducre.- 4. School Yards, Gardens, and Community Parks.- Carol Mendoza Fisher.- 5. Education that Supports all Students: Food Sovereignty and Urban Education in Detroit.- John Lupinacci.- PART TWO: TRANSFORMING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE l³Ï