Tethered to Whiteness: The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Uneven Emancipation in Jason Reynolds' Miles Morales: Spider-Man

Authors

  • Bevin Roue

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.rydl.v3i.1568

Keywords:

School to prison pipeline, Miles Morales, diversity, youth literature, Spider-man

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Published

2021-04-27