Unveiling Impression Management Through Counter-Storytelling: Black Women Educators Navigating Gendered Racial Hostility in Schools

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Abstract

Many Black women educators report experiencing hostility in their work in P-12 schools because of their intersectional identity. In this explanatory sequential mixed methods study, seventy Black women educators from 24 states in the United States share their workplace experiences with gendered racial microaggressions and their participation in virtual educator race-based affinity groups. Drawn from a larger study, this paper explores how adult learners in this study may shift their identity and level of engagement within the P-12 schools where they experience hostility. The use of the counterstory provides a prime opportunity to center the experiences and voices of Black women who reveal how they navigated the schools where they worked and reported experiencing and/or witnessing gendered racial hostility.

Author

• Mia H. Kirk, Montclair State University