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Progressive Dystopia : Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco /
"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 prog...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781478007401 |