ABSTRACT
Racial justice discourse in education proceeds past/around/on the back of Black suffering, rendering Black suffering invisible, or illegible. In fact, the pursuit of racial justice in education may serve to impede the freedom of Black people, and only reproduce and reinscribe Black suffering. What we need to envision is the destruction of the very conditions of Black suffering, which is necessarily the end of schooling as we understand it, and in the meantime, there needs to be a perpetual troubling of what gets celebrated as racial justice in education, what is imagined as the (just) ends of our work in the field.
