Dottie’s Story is a chapter in the book I wrote during my sabbatical. The book is a collection of my stories about what I’ve learned across the year of my life about race and me and systemic racism in this country. I try to make the point through examples in my own life that seeing ourselves and knowing ourselves as a category (white) is essential to working through other socially categories (black, mixed, privilege, etc.) from which we’ve constructed our racist behavior.<\/p>\n
This particular chapter occurs after I’ve decided not to accept invitations to work with faculties unless the invitations come from the faculties themselves. Instead, I’ve declared the bottom line for me as a teacher educator is whether I can make a positive, measured (!) difference in the lives of schoolchildren through my university students. Making that difference is the bottom line of whether or not I believe I am effective (and good) at what I do.<\/p>\n
The reference to the Big Red Book is a reference to one of the first chapters in the book in which I tell how race became “named” for me. The list of names that occur in the text (Manny, Doris, etc.) are teachers I worked with when I taught Junior High.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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