ABSTRACT
This narrative presents a compelling account of a Latina teacher educator’s experience with White pre-service teachers’ resistance and racism at a university in the South. I learned from experiences that my gendered, politicized, and racialized body marks me as a target for White rage and resistance. This narrative provides a real-life example of how my traumatizing experiences ultimately provided me a path toward self-renewal and perseverance. It is through this journey that I received a rude awakening of what most faculty of color, particularly Latina women scholars, experience in higher education: accusations of incompetence and having a hidden political agenda. By sharing my experiences, albeit the pain and anger, I hope that my narrative profile will further dialogues that are desperately needed in teacher education around pedagogy, power, and race.
