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> <p>0.Concept Field Notes: An Introduction <b>Part I. Afropessimism and Fugitivity </b>1.<strong> </strong>On Black Education: Anti-blackness, Refusal, and Resisance 2. Afropessimism for Us in Education: In Fugitivity, through Fuckery and with Funk 3. Literate Slave, Fugitive Slave: A Note on the Ethical Dilemma of Black Education 4. On Labor and Property: Historically White Colleges, Black Bodies, and Constructions of (Anti) Humanity 5. Black Space in Education: Fugitive Resistance in the Afterlife of School Segregation 6. Anti-Blackness is Equilibrium: How "Disparity" Logics Pathologize Black Male Bodies and Render Other Black Bodies Invisible <strong>Part II: Conceptual Considerations </strong>7.<strong> </strong>Radical Hope, Education and Humanity 8. Anti-Blackness and the School Curriculum 9. Kissing Cousins: Critical Race Theory’s Racial Realism and Afro-Pessimism’s Social Death <strong>Part III: Research Vignettes </strong>10.<b> </b>Seeking Resistance and Rupture in "the Wake": Locating Ripples of Hope in the Futures of Black Boys 11. Knowledge and POWER: A Case Study on Anti-Blackness within Schooling 12. Debating While Black: Wake Work in Black Youth Politics 13. Making the World Go Dark: The Radical (Im)possibilities of Youth Organizing in the Afterlife of Slavery 14. More than Just Potential </p>