Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco
Savannah Shange
May 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Diana Blue
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San Francisco is the endgame of gentrification, where racialized displacement means that the Black population of the city hovers at just over three percent. The Robeson Justice Academy opened to serve the few remaining low-income neighborhoods of the city, with the mission of offering liberatory, social justice-themed education to youth of color. While it features a progressive curriculum, including Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde, the majority Latinx school also has the district's highest suspension rates for Black students. In Progressive Dystopia Savannah Shange explores the potential for reconciling the school's marginalization of Black students with its sincere pursuit of multiracial uplift and solidarity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and six years of experience teaching at the school, Shange outlines how the school fails its students and the community because it operates within a space predicated on antiblackness. Seeing San Francisco as a social laboratory for how Black communities survive the end of their worlds, Shange argues for abolition over revolution or progressive reform as the needed path toward Black freedom.
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Verna Autenrieth
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April 13, 2024
Blatantly shows all the reason Critical Race Theory is just as evil as The Nazi ideology to hold people to a set of preconceived traits and actions. It takes away merit and accountability. 2 things necessary for thriving and achieving society aka free market capitalism All this CRT and DEI is the turd of Marxism wrapped up in pretty bow!
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Savannah Shange is assistant professor of anthropology and principal faculty in critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Diana Blue received her BFA in drama from Hofstra University and her MA in theater education from Emerson College. She is a classically trained actor, choreographer, and voice performer who resides in Connecticut. Additionally, she is passionate in her work as a K-12 theater educator and director.
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