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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]

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Shange, Savannah, 1980- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Progressive dystopia: abolition, antiblackness, + schooling in San Francisco [by Shange, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Progressive dystopia [by Shange, S.] (Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 — ISBN 9781478005766; LCCN 2019012125; OCLC Number 1108816187)

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

African Americans

Social justice and education

Racism in education

Discrimination in education

Educational equalization

California — San Francisco

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (Duke Books, viewed on January 23, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 212 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LC2803.S26 S53 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781478007401 (electronic book)
1478007400 (electronic book)
9781478005766 (hardcover) [Invalid]
1478005769 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781478006688 (paperback) [Invalid]
1478006684 (paperback) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 16098723

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019981226

OCLC Numbers:

1110148386