Progressive dystopia
Subtitle: abolition, antiblackness, + schooling in San Francisco
By: Savannah Shange
Contributors: Duke University Press
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781478005766; 9781478006688; 9781478007401
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Racism in education; Educational equalization; Discrimination in education; Social justice and education; Social aspects; Robeson Justice Academy (San Francisco, Calif.); Education; African Americans
Description: "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 commitments 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: #ourlivesmatter: mapping an abolitionist anthropology; title: 'A long history of seeing': historicizing the progressive dystopia; title: Why can't we learn African?: academic pathways, coalition pedagogy, and the demands of abolition; title: The kids in the hall: space and governance in Frisco's plantation futures; title: Ordinary departures: flesh, bodies, and border management at Robeson; title: Black skin, brown masks: carceral progressivism and the co-optation of Xicanx nationalism; title: Coda: My afterlife got afterlives.