1st Edition
The Future is Black Afropessimism, Fugitivity, and Radical Hope in Education
Concept Field Notes: An Introduction
[Carl A. Grant]
Part I. Afropessimism and Fugitivity
Chapter 1: On Black Education: Anti-blackness, Refusal, and Resistance
[kihana miraya ross]
Chapter 2: Afropessimism for Us in Education: In Fugitivity, through Fuckery and with Funk
[Ashley N. Woodson]
Chapter 3: Literate Slave, Fugitive Slave: A Note on the Ethical Dilemma of Black Education
[Jarvis R. Givens]
Chapter 4: On Labor and Property: Historically White Colleges, Black Bodies, and Constructions of (Anti) Humanity
[T. Elon Dancy and Kirsten T. Edwards]
Chapter 5: Black Space in Education: Fugitive Resistance in the Afterlife of School Segregation
[kihana miraya ross]
Chapter 6: Anti-Blackness is Equilibrium: How "Disparity" Logics Pathologize Black Male Bodies and Render Other Black Bodies Invisible
[Hari Ziyad and Timothy DuWhite]
Part II: Conceptual Considerations
Chapter 7: Radical Hope, Education and Humanity
[Carl A. Grant]
Chapter 8: Anti-Blackness and the School Curriculum
[Keffrelyn D. Brown and Anthony L. Brown]
Chapter 9: Kissing Cousins: Critical Race Theory’s Racial Realism and Afro-Pessimism’s Social Death
[Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr. and Shameka N. Powell]
Part III: Research Vignettes
Chapter 10: Seeking Resistance and Rupture in "the Wake": Locating Ripples of Hope in the Futures of Black Boys
[Roderick L. Carey]
Chapter 11: Knowledge and POWER: A Case Study on Anti-Blackness within Schooling
[Tiffani Marie]
Chapter 12: Debating While Black: Wake Work in Black Youth Politics
[Shanara R. Reid-Brinkley]
Chapter 13: Making the World Go Dark: The Radical (Im)possibilities of Youth Organizing in the Afterlife of Slavery
[David C. Turner III]
Chapter 14: More than Just Potential
[Erika C. Bullock]
Biography
Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ashley N. Woodson is the Stauffer Endowed Assistant Professor of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Michael J. Dumas is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
