The Future is Black: Afropessimism, Fugitivity, and Radical Hope in Education

The Future is Black: Afropessimism, Fugitivity, and Radical Hope in Education
ISBN-10
1351122975
ISBN-13
9781351122979
Category
Education
Pages
132
Language
English
Published
2020-07-30
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Carl A. Grant, Ashley N. Woodson, Michael J. Dumas

Description

The Future is Black presents Afropessimism as an opportunity to think in provocative and disruptive ways about race, racial equality, multiculturalism, and the pursuit of educational justice. The vision is not a coherent, delimited conversation, but a series of experiences with Afropessimism as a radical analytic situated within critical Black studies. Activists, educators, caregivers, kin, and all those who love Black children are invited to make sense of the contemporary Black condition, including a theorization of Black suffering, Black fugitivity, and Black futurity. These three concepts provide the foundation for the book's inquiry, and contribute to the examination of Black educational opportunity, experience, and outcomes. The book not only explores how schooling becomes complicit in, and serves as, a site of Black material and psychic suffering, but also examines the possibilities of education as a site of fugitivity, of hope, of escape, and as a space within which to imagine an emancipation yet to be realized.

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