Our Side to the "Whole" Story: Black Women Teachers Centering Their Stories and Experiences in Secondary Education

• In Event: Our Stories, Our Spaces: Black Women and Girls' Experiences as Students and Teachers

Abstract

While student diversity is increasing in the United States, teachers in the field are still largely White, female, and monolingual (Zumwalt & Craig, 2005). Despite this, Black women have always worked as teachers (Royster, 2000), but, their voices are often silenced or omitted from narratives told about schooling (Carver-Thomas & Darling-Hammond, 2017). Grounded in tenets of Black feminist thought, this study seeks to center the narratives of Black women as they discuss citizenship in education and investigate their reasons for continuing to work as teachers, despite their awareness of their positioning. Through narrative inquiry, this research addresses the need to understand the experiences of Black women teachers in schools who work to transform education into spaces of full citizenship.

Author

• Adrian Denise Dunmeyer, Georgia State University