From Antiracism to Abolition: Professional Learning for Liberating Schools (Race and Education)

This book serves as a guide for school leaders, equity facilitators, and educators aiming to transform schools into truly equitable and liberatory spaces.Why do contemporary antiracist initiatives fall short of achieving systemic educational equity? In From Antiracism to Abolition, Abby C. Emerson examines this question and offers tools to organize teacher learning that aims for freedom, care, and justice rather than compliance and punishment.By reading this book, you will learn:Why most antiracist efforts fail to disrupt punitive educator–student relationshipsHow to use abolitionist education to improve teacher learning spacesHow to build schools that cultivate inclusion, belonging, safety, and humanity Offering one of the first empirical studies of abolitionist teacher learning, From Antiracism to Abolition provides concrete strategies for educators who want to use teacher development as a tool for school-wide efforts that work to collectively remove harm, control, and surveillance while fostering joy, collective care, and educational freedom.  Read more