Title: Progressive dystopia : abolition, antiblackness, + schooling San Francisco /
Authors: Shange, Savannah, 1980-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Robeson Justice Academy (San Francisco, Calif.); African Americans Education Social aspects California San Francisco.; Social justice and education California San Francisco.; Racism in education California San Francisco.; Discrimination in education California San Francisco.; Educational equalization California San Francisco.; African Americans Education Social aspects.; Discrimination in education; Educational equalization; Racism in education; Social justice and education; California San Francisco.
Abstract: "Savannah Shange's PROGRESSIVE DYSTOPIA is an activist ethnography of Robeson Justice Academy, a progressive Black and Brown school in San Francisco, which despite its committments to social justice ends up replicating anti-Blackness. Black students are more likely to be punished, and progressive 'wins' at the school can come at a cost to Black San Francisco residents. Shange worked at the school for seven years. Moving through different registers-- Black English, neighborhood dialects, academic prose, and ethnography-- the book attends to the tensions between coalition, anti-blackness, and the state, theorizing events at the school in the context of the long afterlives of slavery"--
Contents: #ourlivesmatter: mapping an abolitionist anthropology -- 'A long history of seeing': historicizing the progressive dystopia -- Why can't we learn African?: academic pathways, coalition pedagogy, and the demands of abolition -- The kids in the hall: space and governance in Frisco's plantation futures -- Ordinary departures: flesh, bodies, and border management at Robeson -- Black skin, brown masks: carceral progressivism and the co-optation of Xicanx nationalism -- Coda: My afterlife got afterlives.