Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
Bettina L. Love
St. Martin's Press/Macmillan
Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan’s presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs.
Serving up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it, Punished for Dreaming lays bare the devastating effect on Black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology. With input from leading U.S. economists, Dr. Love offers a road map for repair, arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core.