‘Miss, why are you brown?’

This chapter explores some of the ways in which children in predominantly or wholly white primary schools perceive and respond to black and Asian trainee teachers. How might constructions of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ affect the ways in which white children interact with and respond to black and Asian trainees? The study is based on a number of small-scale case studies, studies that offer us insights on children’s perceptions of individuals, in this case teachers, who ‘look’ different. I link these observations about race and ethnicity to children’s more general reflections about trainee teachers.