Getting Back What You Put In: Familial Capital Generated Through Family Roles and Responsibilities

• In Event: Roundtable Session 38
  In Roundtable Session: Division J Section 6 Roundtable 7

Abstract

Yosso’s (2005) community cultural wealth focuses on six different types of capital (e.g., aspirational, social, linguistic, familial, resistance, and navigational capitals) that communities of color have to negotiate social institutions and society. This paper focused on Yosso’s discussion of familial capital, as the benefits and resources that emerge from strong community ties, and highlights a gap in her discussion that focuses less on the capital that can be generated within families. This paper offers a more nuanced interpretation of familial capital by focusing specifically on the ways in which family dynamics, roles, and interactions helped develop capital within children of immigrants (second-generation immigrants) through family responsibilities. In turn, students’ familial capital had various implications that impact students’ postsecondary success.

Author

• Fanny P. Yeung, University of California - Los Angeles