 "The heroine of "Black Teacher" is at times boastful, defensive, aggressive, kind and humorous.She is a flawed human being in the process of finding her place in an alien society that failed to appreciate her and where racial abuse was rife.Reflecting this instability, the narrator’s voice slips between a third-person 'pedantic' narrator who is confident, professional and self-assured and the autobiographical 'I' which is much more provisional and self-doubting.