This article develops the construct of "innocent racism" and argues for keeping questions of race central in teacher education. The authors report three cases in which they, teacher educators working within a school/university alliance, identified and addressed racism in their courses. We situate our analyses within antiracist research informed by Critical Race Theory (CRT) where the teacher education students and ourselves struggled to recognize and address racism. Critical episodes are reflectively analyzed to challenge both teacher educators' and teachers' beliefs. We demonstrate how race still matters because of the ways in which it intersects with our practices. Examples of struggles that address emerging positions on race, language, and educational processes inform teacher and faculty learning with important local and global implications.