The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys

by Eddie Moore (Editor), Jos? Amig? (Editor), Marguerite W. Penick-Parks (Editor)

Overview

Real problems, real challenges, real solutions

If we want to change outcomes for Black boys, we need new approaches that acknowledge systemic inequities and that work for the majority of Black boys. White women, who make up 65% of the teaching force, must be part of this change. This extraordinary resource brings together research, activities, personal stories, and links to video interviews to help you:

• Develop learning environments that help Black boys feel a sense of belonging, nurturance, challenge, and love at school
• Change school culture so that Black boys can show up in the wholeness of their selves
• Overcome unconscious bias and forge authentic connections 
 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506351780
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/22/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	472
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr., has pursued and achieved success in academia, business, diversity, leadership, and community service. In 1996, he started America & MOORE, LLC [www.eddiemoorejr.com] to provide comprehensive diversity, privilege, and leadership trainings/workshops. Dr. Moore is recognized as one of the nation’s top motivational speakers and educators, especially for his work with students K–16. Dr. Moore is the Founder/Program Director for the White Privilege Conference (WPC) [www.whiteprivilegeconference.com]. Under the direction of Dr. Moore and his inclusive relationship model, the WPC has become one of the top national and international conferences for participants who want to move beyond dialogue and into action around issues of diversity, power, privilege, and leadership. Dr. Moore’s interview with Wisconsin Public Radio won the 2015 Wisconsin Broadcasters Association’s Best Interview in Medium Market Radio, First Place [http://www.wpr.org/shows/newsmakersdecember- 4-2014], and he is featured in the film “I’m not Racist . . . Am I?” In 2014 Dr. Moore founded The Privilege Institute, which engages people in research, education, action, and leadership through workshops, conferences, publications, and strategic partnerships and relationships. Dr. Moore is co-founder of the online journal, Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, and co-editor of Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories and the forthcoming book.

Ali Michael, Ph.D., is the co-founder and director of the Race Institute for K–12 Educators, and the author of Raising Race Questions: Whiteness, Inquiry, and Education, winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award. She is co-editor of the bestselling Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories and sits on the editorial board of the journal, Whiteness and Education. Dr. Michael teaches in the mid-career doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, as well as the Graduate Counseling Program at Arcadia University. In the 2017–18 school year, she will hold the Davis Visiting Professorship at Ursinus College. Michael’s article, What Do White Children Need to Know About Race?, co-authored with Dr. Eleonora Bartoli in Independent Schools Magazine, won the Association and Media Publishing Gold Award for Best Feature Article in 2014. She may be best known for her November 9, 2016, piece What Do We Tell the Children? on the Huffington Post, where she is a regular contributor. For more details see www.alimichael.org.

Dr. Marguerite W. Penick-Parks received her PhD from the University of Iowa in Curriculum and Instruction. Prior to attending graduate school, she worked as a high school teacher in an urban school in Kansas City, Kansas. Dr. Penick-Parks currently serves as Chair of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Her work centers on issues of power, privilege, and oppression in relationship to issues of curriculum with a special emphasis on the incorporation of quality literature in K–12 classrooms. She appears in the movie, “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible,” by the World Trust Organization. Her most recent work includes a joint article on creating safe spaces for discussing white privilege with preservice teachers and is an editor of Everyday White People Confronting Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories, with Eddie Moore, Jr., and Ali Michael and the forthcoming, The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys (Corwin, October 2017).

Table of Contents

FOREWORDS - Glenn E. Singleton, Heather Hackman
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION: WELCOME TO THE GUIDE FOR WHITE WOMEN WHO TEACH BLACK BOYS - Ali Michael, Eddie Moore Jr., Marguerite W. Penick-Parks with contributions from Edward J. Smith
UNDERSTANDING
Part 1: Exploring the Self
1. READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY - Debby Irving
Vignette: Raisins in the Sun: White Teacher as a Force of Nature Buffering the Radiation of Racial Retaliation - Howard Stevenson
2. THE STATE OF THE WHITE WOMAN TEACHER - Julie Landsman
3. ADVANCING THE SUCCESS OF BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR - The Seven Centers
Vignette: Two Black Boys - Solomon Smart
4. UNDERSTANDING UNCONSCIOUS BIAS AS ONE MORE TOOL IN THE COMMITTED WHITE TEACHER’S EQUITY TOOLKIT - Diane Finnerty
5. WHITE FEMALE TEACHERS AND BLACK BOYS: RIGHT TEACHERS AND (MIS)UNDERSTOOD BOYS - John Marshall
6. WHITE RACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT - Ali Michael
7. WHAT IF BEING CALLED RACIST IS THE BEGINNING, NOT THE END, OF THE CONVERSATION? - Elizabeth Denevi
Vignette: New Understandings - Eli Scearce
8. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A WHITE TEACHER? - Robin DiAngelo
Part 2: Understanding the Constraints and Challenging the Narratives About Who Black Boys Are and Who White Women Can Be
9. RESPECTING BLACK BOYS AND THEIR HISTORY - Jawanza Kunjufu
10. “I CAN SWITCH MY LANGUAGE, BUT I CAN’T SWITCH MY SKIN”: WHAT TEACHERS MUST UNDERSTAND ABOUT LINGUISTIC RACISM - April Baker-Bell
Vignette: The Color of Poop - Krystal de’LeÓn
11. IDENTITY SAFETY AS AN ANTIDOTE TO STEREOTYPE THREAT - Becki Cohn-Vargas
12. THE SCIENCE BEHIND PSYCHOLOGICAL VERVE AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR BLACK STUDENTS - Darla Scott
13. THE VISIT - Justin Coles and Chezare A. Warren
14. REWRITING THE NARRATIVE - Toni Graves Williamson
Vignette: Slavery’s Archetypes Affect White Women Teachers - Olugbala Williams
15. “DON’T LEAN—JUMP IN”: THE FIERCE URGENCY TO CONFRONT, DISMANTLE, AND (RE)WRITE THE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE OF BLACK BOYS IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS - Sharoni Little
RESPECTING
Part 3: Respecting the Broad Diversity of Black Boys’ Experiences and Identities
Vignette: Prince Taught Me the Redefinition of Black Masculinity - Jack Hill
16. STRATEGIES FOR SHOWING LOVE TO BLACK BOYS - Jamie Washington
17. WHITE PRIVILEGE AND BLACK EXCELLENCE: TWO TERMS I’VE BEEN “AFRAID” OF FOR MUCH OF MY LIFE - David Stills
18. BLACK BOYS AND THEIR RACIAL IDENTITY: LEARNING HOW THEY FIT INTO SOCIETY AND IN YOUR CLASSROOM - Paul A. Robbins, Leann V. Smith, and Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards
Vignette: I Had a Right - Adrian Chandler
19. TEACHING BLACK BOYS DURING CHILDHOOD: A COUNTERNARRATIVE AND CONSIDERATIONS - Joseph Derrick Nelson
Vignette: Being Black and Deaf Is a Double Stigma - Sean Norman
20. “HOW DARE YOU MAKE THIS ABOUT RACE?!”: CENTERING RACE, GENDER, AND POVERTY - H. Richard Milner
21. THE N!GGA(ER) IN ME - Eddie Moore Jr.
Vignette: Die N-word Die - Marguerite W. Penick-Parks
22. BLACKNESS/TRANSNESS: TWO TARGETS ON MY BACK - Zeam Porter with Ty Gale
Vignette: What Educators Can Do to Support Trans Students - Phillipe Cunningham
23. WHITE TEACHERS AND THE POWER TO TRANSFORM: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LASTING HARM - Chonika Coleman-King and Jabina Coleman
Vignette: Brown Mothers, White Children - Jillian Best Adler
24. LEARN ABOUT US BEFORE YOU TEACH (ABOUT) US: QUEER BLACK BOYS - Benny Vasquez
25. BLACK MALE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN K–12 CLASSROOMS: STRATEGIES FOR SUPPORT TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE AS STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS - Chance Lewis and Amber Bryant
Vignette: The Administrative Assistant Staff Member: Oh, and Black! - Deneen R. Young
Part 4: Relationships With Parents, Colleagues, and Community
26. HELPING AMAZING BLACK BOYS BECOME AMAZING BLACK MEN - An interview with Verna Myers
27. CONNECTING WITH BLACK STUDENTS AND PARENTS: EQUAL VISION - Shakti Butler
Vignette: Being a Black Mom of Black Boys - Orinthia Swindell
28. ACTIVATING INCLUSIVENESS - Chris Avery
29. BELIEF, PEDAGOGY, AND PRACTICE: STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING POWERFUL CLASSROOM COMMUNITIES - Stefanie Rome and Ty-Ron Douglas
Vignette: The Symbolic Teacher - Carl Moore
30. RUMINATIONS FROM THE INTERSECTIONS OF A #BLACKMOMMYACTIVIST - Shemariah Arki
Vignette: Discipline Practices of Caribbean Families - Chonika Coleman-King
31. FIND FREEDOM IN THE CLASSROOM: A LOVE LETTER TO MY BABIES’ TEACHERS - Crystal T. Laura
CONNECTING
Part 5: Connecting Student Success and Failure to School Structures and Classroom Strategies
32. START OUT FIRM - Valerie Adams-Bass
33. A PARABLE OF ACADEMIC MISGIVINGS: THE EDUCATOR’S ROLE IN ADDRESSING COLLEGE UNDERMATCH - Edward J. Smith
Vignette: Nonviolence, Violence, Standing Up - Aaron Abram
34. THE COLLUSION OF SOCIAL NORMS AND WORKING WITH INTERRACIAL FAMILIES - Jennifer Chandler
35. WHAT ARE WE DOING TO SUPPORT “THESE” STUDENTS TO MEET THEIR POTENTIAL? STRATEGIES FOR CREATING EQUITABLE CLASSROOMS - Brian Johnson
Vignette: Dismantling the “White Savior Mentality” - Marvin Pierre
36. INTERRUPTING SCHOOL STRUCTURES: ADD/ADHD OVERIDENTIFICATION AND HOW BLACK CULTURAL STYLES ARE OFTEN CONFUSED FOR ADD - Erica Snowden
37. FOOTBALL, SPORTS, AND MOORE - USING SCHOOL STRUCTURES TO GET MORE OUT OF BLACK BOYS - Eddie Moore Jr. and Frederick Gooding Jr.
Part 6: Connecting Student Success to School Structures and Classroom Strategies
Vignette: How Do Black Lives Matter in Your Curriculum? - Russell Marsh
38. STRATEGIES THAT DE-ESCALATE CONFLICT IN THE CLASSROOM - Barbara Moore-Williams, Deitra Spence, and Christopher McGinley
39. MEETING STUDENTS WHERE THEY ARE: PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS - Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, Suzanne Fondrie, and Omobolade Delano-Oriaran
40. BLACK FACES AND WHITE SPACES: RECOGNIZING AND SUPPORTING BLACK BOYS IN GIFTED EDUCATION - Brian L. Wright, Donna Y. Ford, and Tarek C. Grantham
41. THE BOOK MATTERS: USING THE COLOR-CODED BLOOM-BANKS MATRIX TO SUPPORT THE LITERACY AND ENGAGEMENT OF BLACK BOYS - Michelle Trotman Scott, Brian L. Wright, and Donna Y. Ford
42. BOOKS AND CURRICULUM: WHAT TO READ WITH BLACK MALES IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO CREATE A STRONG FOUNDATION OF POSITIVE RACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT - Marie Michael
43. GLOBAL SKILLS: BEYOND THE CLASSROOM AND THE PLAYGROUND - Dion Crushshon
OUTTRO: REMEMBER, BLACK GIRLS AREN’T DOING “JUST FINE”: SUPPORTING BLACK GIRLS IN THE CLASSROOM - Charlotte E. Jacobs
VIDEO RESOURCES
REFERENCES
INDEX