The 'absent Black father' metaphor

In this paper, we utilize the concepts of racial knowledge and subjective understanding to demonstrate how the metaphor of surrogacy encodes a racialized discourse via the epistemic authority of social science research. Taken together, we demonstrate how the pervasive use of surrogacy as a metaphor reflects the subjective understanding of Black male teachers produced through the racial knowledge of social science discourse. We argue that the metaphor of surrogacy has become so unquestioningly ubiquitous throughout education and popular culture that it has become the default conceptual framework regarding all reforms for Black young men and boys

Conceptual metaphor · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Metaphor · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Philosophy

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