This week of class is designed for us to read the newest books in the field that relate to anti-racist pedagogies and push us in new ways.  In writing, address the following: 1) What is the contribution(s) that this book makes? 2) What does this book add to the conversations that we have had about anti-racist pedagogies this semester? Here are your book choices:

1. Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness and Schooling in San Francisco  by Savannah Shange
2. Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics* by Louis M. Maraj
3. Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory by Aja Martinez
4. Critical Race English Education: New Visions, New Possibilities* by Lamar Johnson
5. The Future is Black: Afropessimism, Fugitivity, and Radical Hope in Education by Carl A. Grant, Michael J. Dumas, Ashley N. Woodson
6. Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy by April Baker-Bell
7. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love

*These books are currently in press and should be available soon.