April 7, 2020
Carceral Progressivism: On Savannah Shange’s “Progressive Dystopia”
Los Angeles Review of Books, April 7, 2020 (Book review)
Carceral Progressivism: On Savannah Shange’s “Progressive Dystopia”
As Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, who teaches African American Studies at UC Irvine, has written, an “abolitionist consciousness pleads with us” to see that “this place is a slaughterhouse” and that its “citizenship is not worth the paper it is written on”; “when you finally do belong,” she adds, “they will eat your children […] they are never full enough of our dreams deferred.”