The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys / Edition 1

by Eddie Moore, Ali Michael, Marguerite W. Penick-Parks

Overview

Empower black boys to dream, believe, achieve

Schools that routinely fail Black boys are not extraordinary. In fact, they are all-too ordinary. If we are to succeed in positively shifting outcomes for Black boys and young men, we must first change the way school is “done.” That’s where the eight in ten teachers who are White women fit in . . . and this urgently needed resource is written specifically for them as a way to help them understand, respect and connect with all of their students.

So much more than a call to call to action—but that, too!—The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys brings together research, activities, personal stories, and video interviews to help us all embrace the deep realities and thrilling potential of this crucial American task. With Eddie, Ali, and Marguerite as your mentors, you will learn how to:

• 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 your unconscious bias and forge authentic connections with your Black male students

If you are a teacher who is afraid to talk about race, that’s okay. Fear is a normal human emotion and racial competence is a skill that can be learned. We promise that reading this extraordinary guide will be a life-changing first step forward . . . for both you and the students you serve.

About the Authors

Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr., has pursued and achieved success in academia, business, diversity, leadership, and community service. In 1996, he started America & MOORE, LLC 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, 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.

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 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.

Dr. Marguerite W. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506351681
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/25/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	472
Sales rank:	337,523
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Eddie Moore, Jr., has pursued and achieved success in academia, business, diversity, leadership and community service. In 1996, he started America & MOORE, LLC (http://www.eddiemoorejr.com) to provide comprehensive diversity, privilege, and leadership training/workshops. Dr. Moore is recognized as one of the nation’s top speakers/consultants, and he’s featured in the film “I’m not Racist….Am I?” Dr. Moore is the founder of and program director for the White Privilege Conference (WPC: http://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com). In 2014 Dr. Moore founded The Privilege Institute (TPI), which engages people in research, education, action, and leadership through workshops, conferences, publications, and strategic partnerships and relationships. He is cofounder of the online journal Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, and coeditor of Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories (Stylus Publishing, 2016), The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys (Corwin, 2018), and The Diversity Consultant Cookbook: Preparing for the Challenge (Stylus Publishing, 2019). Dr. Moore received his Ph D from the University of Iowa in education leadership. His Ph D research is on Black football players at Division III schools in the Midwest. Twitter: @eddieknowsmoore | Instagram: @eddiemoorejr | In: www.linkedin.com/in/eddiemoorejr

As the Director of the Race Institute for K-12 Educators, Ali Michael, Ph.D. works with schools and organizations across the country to help make research on race, Whiteness, and education more accessible and relevant to educators. Ali is the author of Raising Race Questions: Whiteness, Inquiry and Education, winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award. As a member of a multiracial editorial team, she has co-edited The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys, Teaching Beautiful and Brilliant Black Girls, and Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories. With her colleague Toni Graves Williamson, Ali adapted Robin Di Angelo’s White Fragility for a Young Adult audience. Ali sits on the editorial board of the journal Whiteness and Education. Her 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. When she is not writing, speaking, or training, Ali is striving to be an anti-racist co-parent to two amazing kids. Her writing and speeches are available at alimichael.org.

Marguerite W. Penick received her Ph D 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 is a professor of leadership, literacy and social foundations in the College of Education and Human Services 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. Dr. Penick currently serves as a lead editor for the online journal, Understanding and Dismantling Privilege. She appears in the movie “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible” by the World Trust Organization. Her work includes a joint article on creating safe spaces for discussing white privilege with preservice teachers, and she is a coeditor of Everyday White People Confronting Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories (Stylus Publishing, 2015), The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys (Corwin, 2017), and The Diversity Consultant Cookbook (Stylus Publishing, 2019).

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 Di Angelo
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 Mc Ginley
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

Editorial Reviews

"Approximately eight of ten teachers in the United States are white – they all should read this important book. Additionally, any white woman who aspires to responsibly and effectively demonstrate educational care for black boys will find much that is useful in this text. It should be required reading in teacher education programs and professional development experiences for all educators in P-12 schools and districts. "

Shaun R. Harper

"There is no other instructional guide quite like The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys. While this book offers practical information and advice directly to the largest demographic of educators teaching one of the most marginalized populations of students, it transcends strategy and becomes a book of Black Critical Cultural Studies. The research, essays, vignettes and activities written by a stellar group of scholars and educators, such as Dr. Howard Stephenson, Glen Singleton and Stephanie Rome represent thousands of hours working with Black students and White educators. The Guide describes patterns, context, nuance and complexity in White racial identity development as it interacts in the past and present with a full range of black boys and adolescents: cis, heterosexual, trans, gay, non-athletic, celebrated and incarcerated. Above all is a direct exploration into the 'dos,' 'don’ts,' 'why's' and 'how’s' of culturally responsive teaching from expert teachers. "

Dale Allender

"This Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys will change you. Once you start reading it, you won’t be able to put it down. Weaving together voices of multiple authors, both Black and White, chapters offer poignant personal stories, current research, and well-chosen activities. Every chapter invites White women to do the needed work that will enable us to support healthy development of our Black male students. Few books take on such urgent work with so much care and proactive optimism. "

Christine E. Sleeter

"This book raises crucial questions about teaching and learning across race lines, in a racially unequal and segregated society. With a lens focused equally (and with critical compassion) on white women and black boys, dozens of authors offer thoughtful, urgent, personal, and concrete suggestions for moving beyond “the stereotypes, the misinformation, and the lies we have been taught about Black boys” to new habits of understanding, respecting, and connecting that instead help unleash young people’s full human contributions. Read and digest this book to embrace the deep realities and thrilling potential of this crucial American task. "

Mica Pollock

"There is no other instructional guide quite like The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys. While this book offers practical information and advice directly to the largest demographic of educators teaching one of the most marginalized populations of students, it transcends strategy and becomes a book of Black Critical Cultural Studies. The research, essays, vignettes and activities written by a stellar group of scholars and educators, such as Dr. Howard Stephenson, Glen Singleton and Stephanie Rome represent thousands of hours working with Black students and White educators. The Guide describes patterns, context, nuance and complexity in White racial identity development as it interacts in the past and present with a full range of black boys and adolescents: cis, heterosexual, trans, gay, non-athletic, celebrated and incarcerated. Above all is a direct exploration into the 'dos,' 'don’ts,' 'why's' and 'how’s' of culturally responsive teaching from expert teachers."

Dr. Dale Allender