Br(other) in the Classroom: Testimony, Reflection, and Cultural Negotiation

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Pages364-381
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9781405184076
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 19 2011
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Social Sciences

Keywords

  • "Big brother," mentoring and caring-the black teacher and black student, and mutual support
  • Big brother in classrooms-george orwell's anti-utopian novel 1984, big brother, object of contemplation in province of oceania
  • Black male teachers as "cultural brothers"-a "brotherhood," notion of "br(other)" and of "otherness"
  • Br(other) in the classroom-testimony, reflection and cultural negotiation
  • Br(other), construction of otherness-judith butler's "performative acts and gender constitution," prophetic statement crossing gender and racial lines
  • Cultural brother, notions on "Brotherhood"-"brotherman," civil rights movement of 1960s
  • Dilemma, not in racial identification-in culturally specific performative criteria for black masculinity
  • Making the analogy, my real brothers and my black cultural brothers-of black masculine identity
  • Negotiation, pitting against each other as black men-struggling for power and control in classrooms
  • Playing within space, lying between-culturally connotative and biological meanings of "brother"

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