Black men teaching in urban schools : : reassessing black masculinity / / by Edward Brockenbrough.

• Superior document: Routledge critical studies in gender and sexuality in education
• VerfasserIn: Brockenbrough, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Boca Raton, FL : : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge critical studies in gender and sexuality in education.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (225 pages).

This volume follows eleven Black male teachers from an urban, predominantly Black school district to reveal a complex set of identity politics and power dynamics that complicate these teachers’ relationships with students and fellow educators. It provides new and important insights into what it mean...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: 'acting tougher'
• Saving black boys: black male teachers and saviorist black masculinity
• Call and response: the resonance of saviorist discourses
• Great expectations: black male teachers as disciplinarians and father figures
• Patriarchy meets women's work: encountering female power in the workplace
• The voices (and silences) of black queer male teachers
• 'The whole black thing helps, too': the affordances of culturally responsive pedagogies
• Danger time and deep ecology
• Conclusion: doing black masculinity work
• Appendix. guided meditations
• Works cited.