Use of Critical Narrative Analysis to Explore White Privilege in Entrepreneurship: How Educational Supports Pipeline White Students Into Business Ownership

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Abstract

Critical narrative analysis is a qualitative technique that can be used to illuminate societal inequities via reconstructive storytelling. In this paper, I explore how to use critical narrative analysis for this purpose while exploring white privilege in worker cooperative entrepreneur spaces. Findings suggest that critical narrative analysis revealed formal and informal educational experiences fostered three themes of White privilege in entrepreneurship: resource-rich support systems, anti-meritocracy perceptions of competence, and privileged psychology. The paper concludes with a discussion on the usefulness of critical narrative analysis when exploring unresearched phenomenon related to oppression and privilege.

Author

• Nicole Sankofa, University of North Texas