Progressive dystopia : abolition, antiblackness, + schooling in San Francisco / Savannah Shange.

"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 'wi...

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Main Author: Shange, Savannah, 1980- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
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Physical Description:xiv, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number:LC2803.S26 S536 2019
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781478005766
1478005769
9781478006688
1478006684