Future is Black

Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ashley N. Woodson is the Stauffer Endowed Assistant Professor of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum at the University of Missouri-Columbia.Michael J. Dumas is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

• 0.Concept Field Notes: An Introduction Part I. Afropessimism and Fugitivity 1. 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 Part II: Conceptual Considerations 7. 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 Part III: Research Vignettes 10. 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