Calling All Black Men to Return Home: The Totalizing Discourse of Surrogacy as Metaphor

• In Event: Curriculums of Place and Identity

Abstract

In this paper, we utilize Goldberg’s (1993) racial knowledge and Wynter’s (1995, 2003) subjective understanding to demonstrate how the metaphor of surrogacy is loaded with an encoded racialized discourse via the epistemic authority of social science research. Taken together, we will demonstrate how the pervasive use of surrogacy as a metaphor is reflective of the subjective understanding about Black male teachers produced through the racial knowledge of social science discourse. We argue that the metaphor of surrogacy has become so unquestioningly ubiquitous throughout education and popular culture that it is curriculum as currere—an excavation of the lived wherein experiences become curricula.

Authors

• Daniel Josiah Thomas, Texas A&M University
  Presenting Author

• Marcus W. Johnson, Texas State University
  Presenting Author

• Anthony L. Brown, University of Texas at Austin
  Non-Presenting Author