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…

Teacher educators have sought to understand the challenges associated with teaching predominantly White teacher candidates about race, racism, power, and privilege and preparing them to teach and act for racial and social justice. In this article, I build on this work by exploring (1) how White teacher candidates express race-consciousness upon…

Our study uses post-qualitative methods to create vignettes of critical consciousness or dysconsciousness of five white, pre-service teachers (two featured here). These vignettes help us reevaluate the effectiveness of critical conscious-building pedagogy as well as our methods for assessing critical consciousness (or dysconsciousness) at a…