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Savannah Shange
Dr. Savannah Shange is the author of Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, AntiBlackness,+ Schooling in San Francisco and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and principal faculty in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
“Progressive Dystopia attends to the tensions between coalition, anti-blackness, and the state by documenting the afterlives of slavery as lived in one corner of San Francisco. The argument of this book turns on the generative antagonism between “our” and “Black” in the mattering of lives. By examining a series of successful progressive reforms, and what they cost Black communities, I critique “winning” as the dominant logic of social justice work. I ask, “Who loses when ‘we’ win?”…”
—Savannah Shange, Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, AntiBlackness, +Schooling in San Francisco
Dr. Randi Gill-Sadler
Dr. Randi Gill-Sadler is the Assistant Professor of English at LaFayette College. Gill-Sadler’s forthcoming book manuscript, Diasporic Dissonance: Black Women’s Writing, the Caribbean, and U.S. Empire, asserts that Black women writers used the Caribbean to explore Black diaspora antagonisms resulting from U.S. imperial exploits. For more information about her work, watch Dr. Gill-Sadler on Left of Black.
“That *whatever looks like various engagements with literary forms. June Jordan and Audre Lorde utilized the report as a form of U.S. empire. June Jordan is also using poetics, Paule Marshall does the novel. The *whatever comes in Black women’s play with form and what literary forms can actually demonstrate—the decolonial solidarity and politics they are trying to put forth.”
—Dr. Randi Gill-Sadler