...S.R. Toliver; Heidi Hadley Purpose This paper aims to identify how white preservice teachers’ inability to imagine an equitable space for Black and Brown children contributes to the ubiquity of whiteness in English education. Further, the authors contend that the preservice teachers’ responses...

... that racism works in university-based classrooms and, more specifically, through the authors’ own teaching as White language and literacy educators. Design/methodology/approach This teacher narrative reconceptualizes moments of racialized violence in the courses, as constructed via circulating discourses...