"Whose World Is This?" Composite Counterstory of Black Male Elementary School Teachers as Hip-Hop Otherfathers

• In Event: Roundtable Session 49
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Analysis of Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Elementary School Contexts

Abstract

From a critical race theory lens, the author represents the data from a yearlong study on Black male elementary school teachers from the Hip-Hop generation. In this article, the author represents the data from said study as a composite counterstory which highlights how Black males are alienated, adultified, and criminalized in American public schools. Furthermore, in this article, the concept of otherfathering is comprehensively defined as it relates to how Black male teachers mentor and support their students.

Author

• Dawn Nicole Hicks Tafari, Winston-Salem State University