Progressive Dystopia

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"--

subjects: Racism in education,  Educational equalization,  Discrimination in education,  Social justice and education,  Social aspects,  Robeson Justice Academy (San Francisco, Calif.),  Education,  African Americans,  San francisco (calif.), social conditions,  Social justice,  African americans, education,  Noirs américains,  Éducation,  Aspect social,  Racisme en éducation,  Discrimination en éducation,  Démocratisation de l'enseignement,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Ethnic Studies,  African American Studies

Places: San Francisco,  California