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Savannah Shange’s *Progressive Dystopia* examines Robeson Justice Academy, a progressive Black and Brown school in San Francisco, through an activist ethnographic lens. Drawing on seven years of work there, the book documents how the school’s social‑justice mission paradoxically perpetuates anti‑Blackness, with Black students facing higher rates of punishment and community members experiencing unintended consequences of seemingly progressive practices. Shange weaves Black English, neighborhood dialect, academic prose, and ethnographic analysis to explore tensions between coalition-building, anti‑Blackness, and state power, situating the school within the historic legacies of slavery and contemporary racial inequities in education.
First publish date: 2019
Genre: Education & Language/Education
Authors: Savannah Shange
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