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“White Teachers VS ‘Innercity’ Students: Deception in Media Portrayal”
So I spent many hours making this video for an education class……
Basically, I analyzed several “white savior teacher movies” and gave some insight on what this does for audiences
I made this last night and it’s kinda long but I think it’s important you know?
bless this post
This is a whole lotta truth. I’m just gonna add, another detrimental aspect of this narrative is that it affects how teachers and prospective teachers view themselves in a classroom. The public school teaching force is overwhelmingly made out of middle class white people, primarily white women, when the student body is nothing of the sort, so the narrative ends up being played out by teachers who think it could really work this way, and when they fail, b/c this shit is structural, it leads to a lot of blaming of the students. I’m just gonna drop links to a book here
http://readabookson.tumblr.com/post/31681971350
The book is Black Students, Middle Class Teachers and he spends a couple chapters talking about this gap between the teacher’s world and the students. Though he does lean a bit heavy on the religion for me.
wow these movies are actually worse than i thought
This is a really great video. The analysis fits in with the Magical Negro trope (which I’ve described here). This term describes how Hollywood films tend to cast minorities in supporting roles that aggrandise the White protagonist as the saviour of minorities.