The Insecure Teacher: How Issa Rae Has Normalized the Black Woman to Create TV Magic

Naeemah Clark

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How Issa Rae Has Normalized the Black Woman to Create TV Magic

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Pages:: 97–106

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004398092_009

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Abstract

In its premier season, Issa, the lead character of HBO’s dramedy Insecure works for a non-profit organization that goes into Los Angeles schools in hopes of inspiring Black students. The non-profit We Got Y’all’s staff of well-meaning, but tone-deaf do-gooders continually frustrate her while the students hone in on her insecurities, forcing her to reexamine her life. This chapter is a discussion of how Issa works to defy the patronizing norms of the non-profit to empower her students, as she works to discover how she can live her best life. Ultimately, the discussion will focus on how she navigates being a professional Black woman, educator, an undercover rapper, a best friend, and a conflicted partner while seeking her authentic self. Ultimately, this series depicts that work of educators is not only edifying for the students but also for the teacher.

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Teachers, Teaching, and Media

Original Essays about Educators in Popular Culture

Series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, Volume: 132

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004398092

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 27 May 2019

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Front Matter

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 A Loyalty Test for the American Educator

2 Schooling the State

3 Rethinking Student-Teacher Relationship Intimacy as Attachment

4 Mr. Miller Goes to War

5 In Loco Parentis Redux

6 What’s a Nice White Lady to Do?

7 The Dis-Education of Rock ‘n’ Roll

8 Promoted to Control?

9 The Insecure Teacher

10 Contrasting the Archetypal Sage with the Mentor Coach in Young Adult Literature

11 Saved by the Belles

12 “Good” Teacher on Her Own Terms

13 Liberatory Pedagogy in Action

14 Q the Teacher—TV Lessons from the 24th Century

15 Speechless to Speechless

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