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Interrogating and Reauthoring Savage Inequalities: Exploring Urban Educational Environment Truths Through Community Cultural Wealth

Thu, April 13, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT (2:50 to 4:20pm CDT), Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: East Tower- Ballroom Level, Grand Hall L

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Based upon the forthcoming edited book Reauthoring Savage Inequalities: Narratives of Community Cultural Wealth in Urban Educational Environments (SUNY), this session provides a panel presentation of scholars who are committed to decidedly telling the truth about growing up, being educated, and thriving in urban education environments. Using Kozol’s Savage Inequalities as a starting point, the panel analyzes how Kozol’s work is too often situated as a foundational text for understanding urban education. Yet, the book is under-nuanced and devoid of the lived experiences of people being educated in these spaces. Further, it has not been subjected to “deep, sustained, and systematic interrogation” (Milner, 2022, n. p.). In essence, Savage Inequalities presents a narrative that is not situated “at the center of co-constructing with communities’ agendas of consequence” (Milner, n. p.). Utilizing Yosso’s (2005) Community Cultural Wealth Model (CCWM) as an act of co-constructing and counter-narrativizing, this panel will serve as a space for analysis for participants who represent diverse perspectives, ways of knowing, and the creation of knowledge while also illuminating the nuances of unjust, dominating, and hegemonic depictions of teaching and learning in urban communities. Panelists expound on how unnamed structures, people, and practices transformed these communities into a wealth of aspirational, navigational, resistance, and social capital that provided, and still provide access to, and success in urban educational practices.

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