2023
DOI: 10.1177/01614681231152016
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Gatekeepers and Guardians of Black Intellectual Thought: Black Male Teacher-Coaches Combating an Anti-Black Epistemic Order

Abstract: Background/Context: Historical narratives and contemporary research continue to produce scholarship on teacher-coaches through a White racial frame that both reifies a Western European origin story and centers the experiences of White males. However, the American history of teacher-coaches is not the Black history of teacher-coaches. The Black male teacher-coach tradition is anchored in the utilization of Black intellectual thought to implement revisionist ontology projects that simultaneously claim Black pers… Show more

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“…We offer three potential responses. First, given the prevalence of social studies teachers to be coaches (Stacy, 2014; Thomas, 2023), many social studies teachers may be more likely themselves to be engaged by films involving sports. Second, with 7,618,054 (4,376,582 boys and 3,241,472 girls) interscholastic student-athletes having participated in athletics during the 2021–2022 academic year (National Federation of State High School Associations, 2022), in addition to indirect participants (e.g.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We offer three potential responses. First, given the prevalence of social studies teachers to be coaches (Stacy, 2014; Thomas, 2023), many social studies teachers may be more likely themselves to be engaged by films involving sports. Second, with 7,618,054 (4,376,582 boys and 3,241,472 girls) interscholastic student-athletes having participated in athletics during the 2021–2022 academic year (National Federation of State High School Associations, 2022), in addition to indirect participants (e.g.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…TOC can find themselves called upon to act in disciplinary roles, enforcing institutional policies that harm the students that they seek to support (Brown & Thomas, 2020;Thomas et al, 2022). In reducing TOC to disciplinary experts, schools fail to credit these educators for their other strengths such as content knowledge and pedagogical strategies thus, these teachers choose to leave (Thomas, 2023).…”
Section: Who Chooses To Leave?mentioning
confidence: 99%