(Re)Creating the Script: An Emerging Conceptual Framework for Reframing Black Students' Educational Experiences

• In Event: 79.051 - MTCC Roundtable Session 37
  In Roundtable Session: 79.051-5 - Building Theory and Conceptual Frameworks Through the Study of the Black Educational Experience

Abstract

Along the education spectrum, pervasive misrepresentations of Black students’ educational experiences have proliferated within existing literature. These depictions of Black students often accentuate racial differences in student outcomes, while disregarding the structural opportunity barriers that foster group differences and the factors that promote Black student success. These majoritarian narratives are generally glamorized as universal truths and negatively influence the experiences of Black students in higher education. In this critical literature review, we argue that majoritarian stories about the educational experiences of Black students too often perpetuate racism and White supremacy by continuously framing these students in deficit ways. According, we offer an emerging framework—the Aftermath Model—to disrupt the perpetuation of racism in future research regarding this population.

Authors

• Patrick Reynolds

• Krystal L. Williams, The University of Alabama