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, Volume 47, Issue 2, pp 317–340 | Cite as

On Being Named a Black Supremacist and a Race Traitor: The Problem of White Racial Domination and Domestic Terrorism in U.S. Teacher Education

  • Brenda G. Juárez
  • Cleveland Hayes
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Abstract

This article is concerned with the preparation of future teachers and the continued Whiteness of teacher education. Using the critical race theory methodology of counter-storytelling, this article presents a composite story to highlight and analyze how race and racism influence the preparation of future teachers in ways that typically sustain rather than challenge the Whiteness of education despite widespread self-reports of successful multicultural teacher education. While a great deal has been written about the need to better prepare future teachers for the multicultural realities of contemporary public schools, less examined is the modus operandi of race-based dominance in teacher education. This article seeks to use an examination of the intersections of White racial domination and the daily business of teacher preparation as a learning tool for pushing forward endeavors to prepare all teachers to successfully teach all students.

Keywords

Critical race theory Academic lynching Whiteness 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Student Development, Social Justice Education, School of EducationUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstUSA
  2. 2.Department of Advanced Studies in Education and Human Development, College of Education and Organizational LeadershipUniversity of La VerneLa VerneUSA

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