The Future is Black by Carl A. Grant


The Future is Black
Title : The Future is Black
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ISBN : 0815358202
ISBN-10 : 9780815358206
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 132
Publication : Published July 30, 2020

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.

The Future is Black Reviews

  • Jack Victory

    I was assigned this book for my Studies in Black Education course this fall.

    It is a collection of essays centered around the idea of Afropessimism, Fugitivity, and Radical Hope (as indicated by the book’s subtitle).

    The collection offers various perspectives on what black education could and should look like and how we might get there.

    The introduction sums up the heart of the collection, “I am the protagonist for ‘radical hope,’ and idea that I contend is in the DNA of Black people and was observed during enslavement and continues to be observed today in spaces where Blacks are resisting and fighting back against various forms of cultural devastation.”

  • Erica Warren

    This books took a whole to read and process. It is a great read for anyone interested in Black futurity.