Disposable Teachers: Misunderstandings of Black Afro-Caribbean Women Teachers Enacting a Politics of Care

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 4:20 pm
  In Roundtable Session: #TeachingWhileBlack: Pushing Schools to Do Better by Black Teachers (Table 15)

Abstract

To live into the AERA theme, Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action, we must understand transnational (anti)Blackness and its impact on educational spaces. The diverse stories of thirty-four teachers hailing from the Anglo Caribbean provide evidence that we have much to learn about neoliberal racist recruiting practices, anti-Blackness, and xenophobia in schools. The stories of these teachers also challenge existing understandings of the deficit paradigm by providing a unique case in which teachers themselves are the subjects of deficit thinking. Dismantling racial injustice begins with making Black women, immigrant educators visible. Addressing the continued gap in the literature is long overdue.

Authors

• Kimberly N. Williams Brown, Vassar College

• Cayla Kallman, Vassar College

• Faith D. Northern, New York University