Legislation such as the Equality Act 2010 has ensured that considerable progress has been made in tackling discrimination in relation to the 8 protected characteristics that are defined in law. UK HEIs are well-versed in monitoring the diversity of their workforce and ensuring that recruitment is compliant with the legislation. However as HEIs…

This paper draws on 11 months of multi-site ethnographic fieldwork and 103 interviews to investigate how teachers in school faculty of varying racial compositions form social ties. Taking an organizational embeddedness perspective, this project examines how organizational practices on the part of the principal influence numerical minority…

As critical race theorists would remind us, those most impacted have the greatest insight to create change. This paper applies a critical race theory framework to explore the leadership experiences of two African American and one Latinx American mathematics teacher educator and how they address issues of race, racism, and (in)justice in teacher…

Predominantly white pre-service teachers typically lack awareness of white supremacist patriarchal (WSP) ideology as a system of thought and praxis. Yet, the prevalence of white people working as teachers alongside BIPOC students and families in urban contexts persists. These teachers' lack of understanding about the system that plagues the…

Differences in personal characteristics, professional qualifications, and contextual factors for congruent and incongruent Black, Hispanic, and White teachers were investigated using data from the National Teacher and Principal Survey (n[subscript teachers]=25,420; n[subscript schools]=5,500). Racial/ethnic congruence was defined as the match…

The number of African American teachers in America's K12 schools has steadily decreased over the past four decades. Black teachers today leave the field in greater numbers than any other ethnic teacher group. To identify the factors that positively and negatively impact Black teacher retention, we assess survey data from a sample of teachers…

Examining the Trajectories of Black Mathematics Teachers: Learning From the Past, Drawing on the Present, and Defining Goals for the Future is a three year-long research study funded by the National Science Foundation. Our study was designed to reflect on the dearth of Black mathematics teachers, including problems with recruiting and retaining…

African American males are represented at an extremely low rate in the teaching profession across the United States. There is a need to inform all about the necessity to recruit, retain, and prepare African American males for the teaching profession. The life experiences of current African American males in the teaching field can help all gain a…

We used a mixed method research design to address the complexity of interrogating issues related to retention of Black mathematics teachers. The research design includes oral history interviews with retired Black mathematics teachers and large-scale survey data collected and analyzed from a Critical Race Quantitative Intersectionality approach. It…

The combination of Black Lives Matter activism, college student protests across the country, and the recent Supreme Court ruling on the historic Fisher v. University of Texas-Austin case have placed race at the center of many national and collegiate conversations. Such an amalgamation of race-centered politics is likely to affect Black faculty and…

Increasing racial and gender diversity has been an urgent goal in many professions and education is no exception. Though the call for more Black men is a worthy one, many challenging questions arise when one considers the country's socio-historical record. The purpose of this study is to explore some of these questions that arise as one probes the…

AERA's 2016 theme is an exciting call for educational research that draws on history to inform present challenges and abiding societal dilemmas. In this regard, recent studies of African American segregated schooling have begun to illuminate the vibrancy, resilience, resourcefulness and professionalism that existed in African American school…

We do not understand how both voice and silence work together to illuminate the experiences of marginalized populations, particularly in the area of education. Also, beyond reclaiming silenced voices we also have yet to inquire into silence as a source of pedagogical knowledge. In this paper we inquire into the complexities of voice juxtaposed to…

The purpose of this study was to examine hidden prejudice in two groups of adult students, international and American, against black compared to white teachers. Social desirability in the minds of participants may affect the result of a study involving racial bias (Mullins, 1982). For this reason, the researchers created a computer protocol using…

This paper draws on the literature on effective African American teachers of African American students to investigate the enactments of culturally relevant critical teacher care (CRCTC) in two fifth-grade teachers' classrooms in a large, urban school district. Using interview and observation data, the findings illustrate the teachers' knowledge of…