Negotiating Antiblackness: Nonblack Latino Male Teachers Reflect on Their Relationality to Antiblackness in Schools

• In Event: Latinx Schooling Experiences

Abstract

There has been considerable effort to recruit and retain more men of color into the teaching profession. While research documents the benefits these men bring to the classroom, critical race scholars also point to problematic racial logics often framing this intervention. This paper employs a BlackCrit framework to examine the unique positionality non-Black Latino male teachers hold in relation to anti-Black racism undergirding male-teacher-of-color recruitment efforts. Drawing from interviews with six non-Black Latino male teachers, this paper highlights the ways Latino men are positioned as multicultural fixers and punishers of Black boys. Findings also describe the ways teachers build solidarity with Black students by refusing liberal multiculturalist subjectivities which render blackness as pathological.

Author

• Michael V Singh, University of California - Davis