Taking an insider’s perspective, Damien Sojoyner’s First Strike examines the root causes of California’s ever-expansive prison system and disastrous educational policy. Re-centering analysis of Black masculinity beyond public rhetoric, it critiques the trope of the “school-to-prison pipeline,” exploring the realm of public school as a form of “enclosure” that has influenced the schooling (and denial of schooling) and imprisonment of Black people in California.

Damien Sojoyner is an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine.

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