Designed for educators by educators, From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood is the white teachers’ guide to effective multicultural, anti-racist pedagogy.
Over 20 educators are featured in this book, representing different types of schools, different geographies, different durations of experience in the classroom, and different depths of experience in interrogating their whiteness. Throughout the text, nationally renowned educators and coeditors Dr. Christopher Emdin and sam seidel offer feedback and perspective on how to incorporate the practices and wrestle with the ideas outlined by the contributors.
Replete with practical reflections and actionable exercises, this book explores among other things:
—identity formation, healing, and growth in the early years of a teacher’s career
—the restrictive, harmful nature of standardization and the power of localization as a tool for transformation
—hip-hop as a vehicle for promoting culture and authenticity within the classroom
—whiteness as a racial identity and intentional anti-racist teacher trainings to identify and unlearn white supremacy
From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood is the essential classroom companion for every white teacher committed to fostering productive learning spaces that respect the races, cultures, and identities of their students. It offers all readers a window into the essential work that must be done to transform our nation’s schools from sites of harm to sites of healing.
Contents
Welcoming
Part One
Reflecting on Early-Career Experiences
Can We Water Our Students and Ourselves at the Same Time? – Maya Park
How to Draw a Penis and Other Lessons from a Special Education Classroom – Jamie Wilber
The Path to Forming My Identity – Jim Bently
Persevering – Caroline Scholes
Part Two
Localized Learning
From Kipling to King – Glenetta Blair Krause
Intensive Tensions – On the Block and in the Park – Jared Fox
Student Leadership: Making Complex Changes Without the White-Savior Complex – Holly Spinelli
Part Three
Language and Hip-Hop
Say It Loud – Decentering Whiteness in Classroom Discourse – Rick Ayers
Working in the Studio and Perfecting Our Craft – Brian Mooney
Language and Reflection in Writing Classrooms – Tessa Brown
On Hip-Hop, Authenticity, and Appreciation – Ian P. Levy
Part Four
Discipline/ “Behavior Management”
“Not Another Whie Man in Charge…” – Adam Weinstock
Peer Mediation: Shifting Power in School Discipline – Jeff Embleton
Much Like All of the Last – Adam Seidel
Part Five
Teaching Teachers
Because School Was Built for Me, There’s So Much I Didn’t Know – Ali Michael
White Racial Identity Development and Race-Based Affinity Groups – Lisa Graustein
Whiteness upon Whiteness – Marguerite W. Penick and Kyle P. Steele
Part Six
Out The Hood Now
From the Burbs to the Hood to the Burbs – Tom Rademacher
Where the Hands Builds the Mindset, or Redesigning the White Mindset – David H. Clifford
The Unbearable Whiteness of Boston: Unplugging from the Nonprofit Industrial Matrix – Justin C. Cohen
White Boy/Disrupting Whiteness – Eli Tucker Raymon
The Misplaced Outrage of Woke White Parents – Jonathan Osler
Farewell
Contributors
Notes
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