Educational leaders and stakeholders frequently call for the recruitment of more Black men in the teaching profession to improve the self-esteem and academic performance of Black students, especially Black boys, who may lack adult male role models in their homes and communities. This volume brings critical Black masculinity studies to bear on scholarly and popular discourses on Black male teachers in the United States, where well-intentioned but narrow beliefs create significant dilemmas for Black male teachers.

This volume follows eleven Black male teachers from an urban,...