Overcoming Racial Discursive Buffers: How to talk about racism when no one else wants to (in TESOL)

Black and neurodivergent - JPB Gerald is an adult educator who received his doctorate from CUNY – Hunter College in Instructional Leadership. He works in adult education and curriculum training at a nonprofit and is an adjunct professor in his spare time. His scholarship focuses on language education, racism, and whiteness, and he lives with his wife, young son, and dog in New York (on unceded Munsee Lenape/Canarsie territory). He hopes you will join him on the journey towards decoding and decentering whiteness in language teaching. Find his work at jpbgerald.com.