The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys

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 PhD from the University of Iowa in education leadership. His PhD 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 DiAngelo’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 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 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).

• FOREWORDS - Glenn E. Singleton, Heather HackmanACKNOWLEDGMENTSABOUT THE AUTHORSABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORSINTRODUCTION: 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. SmithUNDERSTANDINGPart 1: Exploring the Self1. READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY - Debby IrvingVignette: Raisins in the Sun: White Teacher as a Force of Nature Buffering the Radiation of Racial Retaliation - Howard Stevenson2. THE STATE OF THE WHITE WOMAN TEACHER - Julie Landsman3. ADVANCING THE SUCCESS OF BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR - The Seven CentersVignette: Two Black Boys - Solomon Smart4. UNDERSTANDING UNCONSCIOUS BIAS AS ONE MORE TOOL IN THE COMMITTED WHITE TEACHER’S EQUITY TOOLKIT - Diane Finnerty5. WHITE FEMALE TEACHERS AND BLACK BOYS: RIGHT TEACHERS AND (MIS)UNDERSTOOD BOYS - John Marshall6. WHITE RACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT - Ali Michael7. WHAT IF BEING CALLED RACIST IS THE BEGINNING, NOT THE END, OF THE CONVERSATION? - Elizabeth DeneviVignette: New Understandings - Eli Scearce8. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A WHITE TEACHER? - Robin DiAngeloPart 2: Understanding the Constraints and Challenging the Narratives About Who Black Boys Are and Who White Women Can Be9. RESPECTING BLACK BOYS AND THEIR HISTORY - Jawanza Kunjufu10. “I CAN SWITCH MY LANGUAGE, BUT I CAN’T SWITCH MY SKIN”: WHAT TEACHERS MUST UNDERSTAND ABOUT LINGUISTIC RACISM - April Baker-BellVignette: The Color of Poop - Krystal de’LeÓn11. IDENTITY SAFETY AS AN ANTIDOTE TO STEREOTYPE THREAT - Becki Cohn-Vargas12. THE SCIENCE BEHIND PSYCHOLOGICAL VERVE AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR BLACK STUDENTS - Darla Scott13. THE VISIT - Justin Coles and Chezare A. Warren14. REWRITING THE NARRATIVE - Toni Graves WilliamsonVignette: Slavery’s Archetypes Affect White Women Teachers - Olugbala Williams15. “DON’T LEAN—JUMP IN”: THE FIERCE URGENCY TO CONFRONT, DISMANTLE, AND (RE)WRITE THE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE OF BLACK BOYS IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS - Sharoni LittleRESPECTINGPart 3: Respecting the Broad Diversity of Black Boys’ Experiences and IdentitiesVignette: Prince Taught Me the Redefinition of Black Masculinity - Jack Hill16. STRATEGIES FOR SHOWING LOVE TO BLACK BOYS - Jamie Washington17. WHITE PRIVILEGE AND BLACK EXCELLENCE: TWO TERMS I’VE BEEN “AFRAID” OF FOR MUCH OF MY LIFE - David Stills18. 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-EdwardsVignette: I Had a Right - Adrian Chandler19. TEACHING BLACK BOYS DURING CHILDHOOD: A COUNTERNARRATIVE AND CONSIDERATIONS - Joseph Derrick NelsonVignette: Being Black and Deaf Is a Double Stigma - Sean Norman20. “HOW DARE YOU MAKE THIS ABOUT RACE?!”: CENTERING RACE, GENDER, AND POVERTY - H. Richard Milner21. THE N!GGA(ER) IN ME - Eddie Moore Jr.Vignette: Die N-word Die - Marguerite W. Penick-Parks22. BLACKNESS/TRANSNESS: TWO TARGETS ON MY BACK - Zeam Porter with Ty GaleVignette: What Educators Can Do to Support Trans Students - Phillipe Cunningham23. WHITE TEACHERS AND THE POWER TO TRANSFORM: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LASTING HARM - Chonika Coleman-King and Jabina ColemanVignette: Brown Mothers, White Children - Jillian Best Adler24. LEARN ABOUT US BEFORE YOU TEACH (ABOUT) US: QUEER BLACK BOYS - Benny Vasquez25. BLACK MALE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN K–12 CLASSROOMS: STRATEGIES FOR SUPPORT TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE AS STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS - Chance Lewis and Amber BryantVignette: The Administrative Assistant Staff Member: Oh, and Black! - Deneen R. YoungPart 4: Relationships With Parents, Colleagues, and Community26. HELPING AMAZING BLACK BOYS BECOME AMAZING BLACK MEN - An interview with Verna Myers27. CONNECTING WITH BLACK STUDENTS AND PARENTS: EQUAL VISION - Shakti ButlerVignette: Being a Black Mom of Black Boys - Orinthia Swindell28. ACTIVATING INCLUSIVENESS - Chris Avery29. BELIEF, PEDAGOGY, AND PRACTICE: STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING POWERFUL CLASSROOM COMMUNITIES - Stefanie Rome and Ty-Ron DouglasVignette: The Symbolic Teacher - Carl Moore30. RUMINATIONS FROM THE INTERSECTIONS OF A #BLACKMOMMYACTIVIST - Shemariah ArkiVignette: Discipline Practices of Caribbean Families - Chonika Coleman-King31. FIND FREEDOM IN THE CLASSROOM: A LOVE LETTER TO MY BABIES’ TEACHERS - Crystal T. LauraCONNECTINGPart 5: Connecting Student Success and Failure to School Structures and Classroom Strategies32. START OUT FIRM - Valerie Adams-Bass33. A PARABLE OF ACADEMIC MISGIVINGS: THE EDUCATOR’S ROLE IN ADDRESSING COLLEGE UNDERMATCH - Edward J. SmithVignette: Nonviolence, Violence, Standing Up - Aaron Abram34. THE COLLUSION OF SOCIAL NORMS AND WORKING WITH INTERRACIAL FAMILIES - Jennifer Chandler35. WHAT ARE WE DOING TO SUPPORT “THESE” STUDENTS TO MEET THEIR POTENTIAL? STRATEGIES FOR CREATING EQUITABLE CLASSROOMS - Brian JohnsonVignette: Dismantling the “White Savior Mentality” - Marvin Pierre36. INTERRUPTING SCHOOL STRUCTURES: ADD/ADHD OVERIDENTIFICATION AND HOW BLACK CULTURAL STYLES ARE OFTEN CONFUSED FOR ADD - Erica Snowden37. 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 StrategiesVignette: How Do Black Lives Matter in Your Curriculum? - Russell Marsh38. STRATEGIES THAT DE-ESCALATE CONFLICT IN THE CLASSROOM - Barbara Moore-Williams, Deitra Spence, and Christopher McGinley39. MEETING STUDENTS WHERE THEY ARE: PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS - Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, Suzanne Fondrie, and Omobolade Delano-Oriaran40. BLACK FACES AND WHITE SPACES: RECOGNIZING AND SUPPORTING BLACK BOYS IN GIFTED EDUCATION - Brian L. Wright, Donna Y. Ford, and Tarek C. Grantham41. 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. Ford42. BOOKS AND CURRICULUM: WHAT TO READ WITH BLACK MALES IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO CREATE A STRONG FOUNDATION OF POSITIVE RACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT - Marie Michael43. GLOBAL SKILLS: BEYOND THE CLASSROOM AND THE PLAYGROUND - Dion CrushshonOUTTRO: REMEMBER, BLACK GIRLS AREN’T DOING “JUST FINE”: SUPPORTING BLACK GIRLS IN THE CLASSROOM - Charlotte E. JacobsVIDEO RESOURCESREFERENCESINDEX

"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."