Abstract
Charles Wilson is the deputy network superintendent for Middle Schools in Oakland Unified School District. Wilson was getting accolades because of his leadership at Korematsu, including a nomination for the National Blue Ribbon award for being one of the most improved schools in the country. The first time Charles Wilson met Chris Chatmon was at a speaking engagement for the League of Women Voters. Both men were in the limelight of school reform. As a district leader, Chatmon is trying to implement and institutionalize an ethic of care with built-in time for mentors for every child. Building on this work and the insights of Wilson, subaltern, as a framework, is quite apropos to an analysis of the ways schools can address and eliminate institutionalized racism. Wilson began his career as an elementary school teacher at Sequoia and then moved on to teach middle school at Montera.