No! The team ain't alright! The institutional and individual problematics of race

ISSN： 1363-0296

Source： Social Identities, Vol.15, Iss.6, 2009-11, pp. : 811-829

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Abstract

Critical race theory (CRT) has been a framework used to better understand practice and research in education. Leading scholarship in CRT has called upon researchers and practitioners interested in CRT for education to attend to the tenets of CRT beyond counter-storytelling. The article begins with a counterstory to make sense of race as it manifests in one teacher education program in the Midwest in particular, and in teacher education programs more broadly. Analysis of the counterstory moves beyond the story itself, exploring 'holes' that implicate the 'institution' and the 'author' as contributing to racism. Using the CRT tenets of whiteness as property, and an expansive versus restrictive view of anti-discrimination, the author interrogates the way in which racism manifests in pre-service teacher education, and how his behavior has been complacent in institutional racism and maintaining white privilege. Finally, thoughts are offered that speak to how educators might approach anti-racist stances.