ABSTRACT
This chapter illuminates the everyday realities of African American educators in charter schools in post-Katrina New Orleans, offering their voices as counter to the narratives of dominance. White abjectorship is most clearly illustrated in charter school reform discourses surrounding African American teachers in New Orleans. The chapter aims to center the Black teacher in charter school reform, situating them within the nexus of power relations that organize schooling policy and practices. In the case of New Orleans veteran educators, they were sacrificed by neoliberal charter reformers. The violence, dispossession, silencing, and foreclosing of upward mobility that has been enacted upon African American educators in New Orleans is yet another iteration of the afterlife of slavery. African American educators used as hosts for parasitic policies, in the name of justice, that sacrifice their being in service to camouflaged restructurings of the state. In the New Orleans case, the ideological commitment to market approaches was buttressed by economic support and legislative policies.
