Blocking the Bathroom: Latino Students and the Spatial Arrangements of Student Discipline

Authors

  • Mariama Gray CSU East Bay

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v10i2.186371

Keywords:

Latino, Space, Discipline, Boys, Culture, Ethnography, Surveillance

Abstract

In this ethnographic study of student discipline in California, I examine the spatial arrangements of the disproportionate discipline, surveillance, and banishment of Latino boys who were constructed as gang members from school and community spaces. Drawing on socio-cultural geographical theories, I argue that negative discourses, and implicit bias, together with increased surveillance in school and public space(s) contributed to the disproportionate discipline of Latino male students.


Author Biography

Mariama Gray, CSU East Bay

Mariama Gray is an assistant professor in the Educational Leadership Department at California State University, East Bay and teaches in the Educational Leadership for Social Justice Administrative Services Credential and Ed.D. programs. Her research interests include culturally and linguistically responsive school leadership, critical/cultural geographical perspectives on student discipline, and Latino education. Dr. Gray received her Ph.D at UC Davis in Education with an Emphasis in Language, Literacy and Culture. She is a veteran Spanish and Social Studies teacher and former school administrator. 

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Published

2019-01-15

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2019)

Section

Articles

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