A Critical Race-Conscious Autoethnography on Attempting to Enact Antiracist Servant Leadership

• In Event: Sustaining Antiracist and Abolitionist Leadership

Abstract

There is a continued need for leaders who serve their communities and lead from antiracist orientation. In other words, we need antiracist servant leaders, yet the two concepts are hard to enact in practice. In this paper, a racialized White male first year principal uses a critical autoethnographic approach to share the tensions related to white fragility and White supremacy culture that ensued when working to serve and be antiracist in a predominately White elementary school with an all white teaching staff.

Author

• Kirsten Letofsky, New Mexico State University
  Presenting Author