ABSTRACT
Finally, Chapter 9 returns to the idea of educational necropolitics through the theorization of ontoepistemological choking and lynching, which is evident throughout the data. Attending to racialized curricula within necropolitical norms, the material consequences of these curricula for students becomes clear. To return once more to the opening dialogue presented in the sample at the beginning of the book, this chapter explores how, in a contemporary context, Black youth become the strange fruit of schools. Although necropolitics is often discussed in terms of physical or social death, this chapter explicates how ontoepistemological torture (choking) and death (lynching), or the chipping away of students' ways of being, knowing, and doing is often used to preserve hegemonic norms and values.
