City Libraries, City of Gold Coast

Progressive dystopia, abolition, antiblackness, +schooling in new San Francisco, Savannah Shange

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

chartsillustrations

index present

non fiction

Progressive dystopia

bibliography

Savannah Shange

abolition, antiblackness, +schooling in new San Francisco

"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"--, Provided by publisher

#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