The Pushouts: A Film on the Crisis in Education for Marginalized Students of Color

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

The Pushouts interrogates crucial questions of race, class and power in the education system. It is a film about the work Sociologist Victor Rios conducted with a group of youths from Watts (Los Angeles). These young people had been pushed out of school . His research team, led by Dr. Rebeca Mireles Rios, developed and tested an intervention to help them finish school, while pushing the school system to provide more emotional support and resources for these students. The film attempts to create a conversation about racial inequality in education by exposing the day-to-day experiences of marginalized students. Reform in education must address punitive school policies that impact the day-to-day lives of young people and allow these young people’s voices to provide key insight on how we might change this system.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Victor M. Rios, University of California - Santa Barbara

Commentator

• Prudence L. Carter, University of California - Berkeley

• Rebeca Mireles-Rios, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Katie Galloway, Big Picture Films