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Disproportionate school brutality upon Black children.Black children experience multiple times the level of school brutality that White children experience. School brutality is the excessive and unwarranted use of physical force by governmental employees upon K-12 public school students, and it includes assaults, solitary confinement, and inappropriate handcuffing. Such brutality kills, injures, and traumatizes children. For Black children, such state violence has the additional significance of perpetuating coercive structures arising from slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Specifically, legalized violence and fear of such violence were the principal tools by which White supremacists subordinated and controlled Black people during slavery and the Jim Crow era. Disproportionate school brutality upon Black children thus maintains the historical, legalized physical maltreatment of Black children. Such state violence continues to harm and subjugate the health and educational functioning of
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