Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the problematic history between schools and prisons
  • The problem of Black genius : Black cultural enclosures
  • In the belly of the beast : ideological expansion
  • Land of smoke and mirrors : the meaning of punishment and control
  • Troubled man : limitations of the masculinity solution
  • By all means possible : the historical struggle over Black education
  • Conclusion : reading the past and listening to the present.