The future is Black : Afropessimism, fugitivity, and radical hope in education

__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. This book presents Afropessimism as an opportunity to think in provocative and disruptive ways about race, racial equality, multiculturalism, and the pursuit of educational justice. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Notes on Contributors 10 Concept Field Notes: An Introduction 14 Part I: Afropessimism and Fugitivity 18 1 On Black Education: Anti-blackness, Refusal, and Resistance 20 2 Afropessimism for Us in Education: In Fugitivity, through Fuckery and with Funk 29 3 Literate Slave, Fugitive Slave: A Note on the Ethical Dilemma of Black Education 35 4 On Labor and Property: Historically White Colleges, Black Bodies, and Constructions of (Anti) Humanity 44 5 Black Space in Education: Fugitive Resistance in the Afterlife of School Segregation 60 6 Anti-Blackness is Equilibrium: How “Disparity” Logics Pathologize Black Male Bodies and Render Other Black Bodies Invisible 68 Part II: Conceptual Considerations 76 7 Radical Hope, Education and Humanity 78 8 Anti-Blackness and the School Curriculum 85 9 Kissing Cousins: Critical Race Theory’s Racial Realism and Afropessimism's Social Death 92 Part III: Research Vignettes 100 10 Seeking Resistance and Rupture in “the Wake”: Locating Ripples of Hope in the Futures of Black Boys 102 11 Knowledge and Power: A Case Study on Anti-Blackness within Schooling 108 12 Debating While Black: Wake Work in Black Youth Politics 114 13 Making the World Go Dark: The Radical (Im)possibilities of Youth Organizing in the Afterlife of Slavery 120 14 More than Just Potential: Troubling Success Counternarratives in Mathematics Education Research 130 Index 140 Afropessimism;,Conceptual,Considerations;,Research,Vignettes;,Anti-Blackness;,Fugitive,Slave Afropessimism,Conceptual Considerations,Research Vignettes,Anti-Blackness,Fugitive Slave The Future Is Blackpresents 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. Within Which To Imagine An Emancipation Yet To Be Realized. Afropessimism is an opportunity to think in disruptive ways about racial equality, multiculturalism, and the pursuit of educational justice. Activists, educators, caregivers, and kin are invited to make sense of the contemporary Black condition, including a theorization of Black suffering, Black fugitivity, and Black futurity.