TY - SER AU - Annamma, Subini Ancy AU - Anyon, Yolanda AU - Joseph, Nicole M. AU - Farrar, Jordan AU - Greer, Eldridge AU - Downing, Barbara AU - John Simmons TI - Black Girls and School Discipline: The Complexities of Being Overrepresented and Understudied PY - 2019/// PB - Sage KW - Black girls KW - school discipline, KW - racism, KW - School-to-Prison Pipeline N2 - Using Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Feminism as guiding conceptual frameworks, this mixed-methods empirical study examines Black girls’ exclusionary discipline outcomes. First, we examined disciplinary data from a large urban school district to assess racial group differences in office referral reasons and disparities for Black girls in out-of-school suspensions, law enforcement referrals, and expulsions. Next, we used a multivariate analysis to determine whether these patterns held after accounting for other identity markers. Finally, we used Critical Discourse Analysis to consider whether office referrals for Black girls were for subjective or objective behaviors and whether they aligned with dominant narratives UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085916646610 ER -