Panacea and Liberator: Racial Formation and the Black Teacher in the United States

  • Anthony L. Brown
  • Keffrelyn D. Brown
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Abstract

African American teachers in the United States have remained enmeshed within two intervening discourses. In one sense, African American teachers have consistently been part of the wider racial discourse of African American social change. Just as Black leaders, activists and ministers have played a vital role in the racial politics of African Americans in the United States, the Black teacher as well has remained linked to the racial imagination of African American equity and social justice. In another sense, Black teachers experiences have been framed by the wider racial politics in the United States. The contexts of race and schooling have helped to shape the discourse about the necessity for Black teachers in schools. Thus the contingent histories of race have made the Black teacher a proxy for wider ideological or racial interests.

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Black Student African American Male African American Student Black Child Male Teacher 
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