"Both non-Black viewers of color and white moviegoers have such a limited sense of Black existence that they come to believe they have actually had an 'authentic' Black experience with film. "The bodies of Black men and boys are discursively rearranged within movie scripts to quench America's thirst for pathological representations of Blackness," Thomas said. Their study, outlining how the teachers are confined to four stereotypical tropes and how such scripts couldn't exist without flawed social science research, was published in the journal Educational Studies.
Thomas, along with co-authors Marcus Johnson of Texas State University and Anthony Brown of the University of Texas at Austin, analyzed 11 popular films that prominently featured Black male teachers. "Hollywood loves to thrust this assumption into the mainstream, and viewers love to consume the trope." "This research sought to scapegoat socio-historical issues of white supremacy and racist public policies by attributing the cause of any issue or inequity experienced by Black America to dysfunctional families caused by absent Black fathers," Thomas said.
Thomas, assistant professor of curriculum & teaching at KU, found that movies have cast Black male teachers in four main stereotypical tropes, and those depictions are not just based on Hollywood's collective imagination.
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