Progressive dystopia : abolition, anthropology, and race in the new San Francisco / Savannah Shange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shange, Savannah, 1980- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robeson Justice Academy (San Francisco, Calif.).

African Americans--Education--Social aspects--California--San Francisco.

African Americans.

Social justice and education--California--San Francisco.

Social justice and education.

Racism in education--California--San Francisco.

Racism in education.

Discrimination in education--California--San Francisco.

Discrimination in education.

Educational equalization--California--San Francisco.

Educational equalization.

African Americans--Education--Social aspects.

African Americans--Education.

California--San Francisco.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 212 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Shange, Savannah, 1980- Progressive dystopia.

ISBN:

9781478007401

1478007400

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.