Future is Black

<p><em>The Future is Black</em> 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 <i>of hope</i> of escape and as a space within which to imagine an emancipation yet to be realized.</p>