ABSTRACT Within US public schools, Black girls are increasingly overrepresented in exclusionary discipline. Typically, this disproportionality has been examined through the analysis of district wide discipline records including, but not limited to, office referrals. Few studies have endeavored to interrogate the structure and creation of office referrals as more than a mundane part of the disciplinary system. Based on a two-year ethnographic investigation of one high school, and drawing upon Black feminist theory, this paper examined how the structure of office referrals, and teachers’ subsequent use, enabled them to serve as critical tools in facilitating the dehumanization of Black girls during disciplinary interactions. Analysis revealed multiple ways in which referral forms empowered teachers to control the narratives surrounding misbehavior in ways that demonized Black girls while simultaneously masking their own negligence. Recommendations for practice and research are discussed.

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使黑人女孩哑口无言：办公室推荐如何掩盖非人性化的纪律互动

摘要 在美国公立学校中，黑人女孩在排他性学科中的比例越来越高。通常，这种不成比例是通过对学区范围的纪律记录（包括但不限于办公室推荐）的分析来检查的。很少有研究试图将办公室推荐的结构和创建作为纪律系统的一个平凡部分。基于对一所高中进行为期两年的民族志调查，并借鉴黑人女权主义理论，本文研究了办公室推荐的结构以及教师的后续使用如何使它们成为促进黑人女孩非人化的关键工具在学科互动中。分析揭示了多种方式，转介表格使教师能够以妖魔化黑人女孩的方式控制围绕不当行为的叙述，同时掩盖自己的疏忽。讨论了实践和研究的建议。