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Strong sales track with solid potential to be matched or exceeded in paperback: The hardcover edition has sold 13,652, with 20,000 copies in print. Educators especially are hungry for the paperback. The New Press has a successful paperback track for books on race, inequality, and education (Other Peoples Children, Everyday Antiracism) as well as voices of students (Fires in the Bathroom).

Sought-after speaker and advocate: Morriss travel has barely slowed since the HC publication and her star continues to rise. The number of invitations to keynote, speak, moderate, consult, and facilitate increases with every passing month. Upcoming highlights: moderating a social justice panel at The Met in January; featured on a panel with Kimberlé Crenshaw and New York Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones at the Schomburg Center in February; at the request of Melissa Harris Perry will deliver the esteemed Anna Julia Cooper lecture at Wake Forest University in March.

Cuts across three hot subjects: Progressive education titles with the right buzz are perennial successes and among the strongest backlist titles for our press. This book hits not only the education audience, but also readers of books on gender/womens studies, and the ever-expanding audience for criminal justice books.

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The powerful (Michelle Alexander) exploration of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools, and how we can instead orient schools toward their flourishing

On the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school, she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school.

In a work that Lisa Delpit calls imperative reading, Monique W. Morris chronicles the experiences of Black girls across the country whose complex lives are misunderstood, highly judgedby teachers, administrators, and the justice systemand degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Painting a chilling picture of the plight of black girls and women today (The Atlantic), Morris exposes a world of confined potential and supports the rising movement to challenge the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures.

At a moment when Black girls are the fastest growing population in the juvenile justice system, Pushout is truly a book for everyone who cares about children (Washington Post).

Book cover photograph by Brittsense/brittsense.com.

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