Reflections on Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Privilege in the Wake of the Election: An Narrative Collage

Abstract

In this article, a white female tenured professor and an African American female graduate student reflect on their personal, post-election experiences with students enrolled in an undergraduate diversity course for preservice teachers at a predominantly white institution in the Deep South. Centered on a singular politically-driven and racialized interaction, we organize our reflections as a narrative collage. For our purposes here, we drew on our own writing and recollections as well as the voices of our students and our colleagues. We have explored what this interaction, and the ramifications thereof, mean for our ongoing work as teacher educators.