ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides a richer framework than in earlier works for considering what is at stake in how we talk about, perceive, and position Black male teachers in urban schools. It deals with the identification of saviorist Black masculinity as a prevailing construction of Black male teachers' subjectivity that reproduces hegemonic modes of Black manhood in schools. The book argues educational scholarship that troubles hegemonic masculinity politics in the experiences of male teachers in American schools. It offers further cause for exploring new ways of imagining and positioning Black men in urban classrooms. The book discusses the contingency of Black male teachers' deployments of counterhegemonic Black masculinities, and to encourage inquiry-based deliberations with and by Black male teachers over how to manage that contingency.
