ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to understand the ways in which critical teacher educators experience, confront, and resist racism in teacher education. By collectivizing often individualized experiences, larger patterns emerge of how teacher education as an institution contributes to the permanence of racism, as well as strategies of resistance that can inspire and embolden other teacher educators working to confront racism in their settings. The book focuses on the issues that arise as such critical teacher educators work to advance racial justice and highlights systematic and persistent racism that is upheld in teacher education. It offers various examples of teacher educators who are confronting and addressing day-to-day manifestations on structural and interpersonal levels. The book also highlights the importance of powerful individuals who build upon their positionality to challenge and transform the demographics and culture of teacher education.
