Jails and prisons are bursting at the seams with Black and Brown men, some of whom were ushered into the criminal justice system by what some scholars have called a school-to-prison pipeline (Fasching-Varner et al., 2014; Gary, 2013; Horsford & Powell, 2016; Noguera, 2003). Schools are still racially segregated more than 60 years after the landmark Supreme Court decision involving Linda Brown and several other defendants, and in the age of “educational reform,” majority-minority schools are deemed failing, and philanthrocapitalists see such goals as an opportunity to increase their bottom line and feel good about themselves (Martin, 2015a).
Racial residential segregation continues to play a central role in explaining the likelihood of death and violence against black and brown bodies in America.