The Affectionate Interrupter: Portrait of a Black Feminist Teacher Educator's Antiracist Pedagogy of Love

• In Event: 14.028 - Powerful and Emancipatory Practices of Teachers of Color

Abstract

Conversations about educational opportunity must consider how critical pedagogy might cultivate equitable learning spaces. Central to this paper is the phenomenon of antiracist pedagogy. With Black feminism as a theoretical anchor, the paper reports on an investigation of a radical university-based teacher educator’s theory and practice of antiracist pedagogy. Portraiture is used as methodology to gain an understanding of how the teacher educator makes meaning of and enacts her antiracist pedagogy. The dialectic between the teacher educator’s theory and practice reveals the liberatory potential of pedagogies of affect and embodiment with regard to antiracist teaching, thus gesturing to the need for further theorizing and practicing of antiracist pedagogy that embraces rather than ignores the somatic materiality of the body.

Authors

• Esther Oganda Ohito, Mills College

• Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University