The Future is Black: Afropessimism, Fugitivity, and Radical Hope in Education (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780815358206)

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.

　

Author: Carl A. Grant
ISBN-10: 0815358202
ISBN-13: 9780815358206
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/30/2020
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.40d