{"product_id":"schooling-against-the-prison-education-imagination-and-the-promise-of-abolition-9798895571385","title":"Schooling Against the Prison: Education, Imagination, and the Promise of Abolition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis title, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Schooling Against the Prison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, is the latest title to be released in our flagship Race and Education series. It also takes the honor as the first title to be released as part of HEP's trade series, 8 Story St.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold abolitionist manifesto that exposes the carceral logics of schooling and challenges us to redesign discipline, space, language, and imagination so education serves freedom rather than control\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are living in the age of incarceration--and nowhere is its grip more tightly held than inside our schools. In \u003ci\u003eSchooling Against the Prison\u003c\/i\u003e, Marc Lamont Hill examines how American schools have been designed from the ground up to serve as extensions of the carceral state, rife with policed hallways, zero-tolerance codes, test-obsessed classrooms, and discipline systems that mirror the logic of the prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on education history, policy, and real-world stories that tell of the shocking reality of carceral excess--from kindergarten \"tantrums\" treated as crimes, to parents jailed for truancy, and teachers prosecuted as racketeers--Hill exposes how schooling, welfare, testing, and child \"protection\" have been weaponized against Black, economically marginalized, disabled, queer, and trans communities. In response to this crisis, he argues that we should seek strategies that replace suspicion and surveillance with care and connection. The book then provides specific practices (curricular, disciplinary, architectural, and political) for loosening the prison's hold on our imaginations and our institutions, so that schools can become places of safety, scholarship, and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor educators, citizen advocates, parents, and anyone who refuses to accept punitive culture as common sense, \u003ci\u003e Schooling Against the Prison\u003c\/i\u003e is both a devastating diagnosis and an invitation to transform schools into places of collective liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc Lamont Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard Education PR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Race and Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.41h x 5.51w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798895571385","brand":"Harvard Education PR","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48949520859273,"sku":"9798895571385","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_926613bb-02dd-4105-8a33-fd0c113b35f6.jpg?v=1794298543","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/schooling-against-the-prison-education-imagination-and-the-promise-of-abolition-9798895571385","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}