ABSTRACT
In 2015, I wrote a book chapter in the form of a composite story whereby I illustrated the experiences one Black male faculty member was having in his work as a teacher educator (Hayes, 2015). His narrative illustrates how he agitated and disrupted the seemingly calm and peaceful normativity of Whiteness in the academy sufficiently and frequently enough to have brought down upon his own head a form of domestic violence. Moving forward to 2019, I am a Black faculty member who works in a school of education where the minoritized faculty are the majority. However, what is different in this new space is that the pathology of Whiteness is not coming from White people, but other faculty of color, who are complicit in maintaining White supremacy. There is still a placating of Whiteness that I argue is a “showstopper” for any progression of social justice, and puts the school at risk of losing gains toward an anti-racist agenda for the betterment of school children specifically and society in general.
