2009/03/01 by Gloria Ladson‐Billings · 1 citation
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Art #Basketball #Criminology #Critical Race Theory in Education #Critical race theory #Critical theory #Face (sociological concept) #Gender Roles and Identity Studies #Gender studies #History #Law #Media studies #Pedagogy #Perspective (graphical) #Political science #Psychology #Race (biology) #Set (abstract data type) #Social psychology #Social science #Sociology #Suspect #Teacher Education and Leadership Studies #Visual arts
paper · doi:10.1080/13613320802651012
openalex publication_date 2009/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The spring 2007 furor over New York City syndicated radio personality Don Imus’ racist and demeaning characterization of a group of African American women on a college basketball team set off a firestorm of debate and discussion throughout US media. However, little of this discussion focused on the broader constructions of Black women as unattractive, undesirable, and morally suspect. These constructions from popular culture find their way into education when Black women as teachers and mothers continue to face a separate and different set of standards about what it means to be a good teacher and/or a good mother. This paper uses a set of films about teaching and teachers as ‘texts’ that define and re‐define what it means to be a teacher or a mother and explores the implications of these constructions for teaching and teacher education through a critical race theory perspective.