Of Archives, Unstably Housed Families, Languages, and the Chicago Young Lords: Community Cultural Wealth Connections

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session illustrates how youth of color – mainly Puerto Rican, Latinx, and Black – and their families construct educational possibilities in the face of ongoing racial injustice. Panelists examine a spectrum of educational contexts in the Midwest through the lens of Community Cultural Wealth (2005) to expose layers across injustices and of shared solutions and solidarities. Through varied qualitative methods, we trace racial injustices across different periods, in different locations, and within and outside of formal schooling structures. Groups relied on different forms of capital that coincided with advocacy and activism. Ultimately, we argue that despite the ongoing role of racism and colonialism in educational encounters, youth and their families refuse these inherently deficit logics.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Tara J. Yosso, University of California - Riverside

Papers

• Our Stories Matter: Community Cultural Wealth, the Archives, and Puerto Rican Education History - Mirelsie Velázquez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Recognizing the Community Cultural Wealth of Unstably Housed Families - Ann M. Aviles, University of Delaware

• Community Cultural Wealth in the Puerto Rican Rural Midwest? - Lisa Ortiz, University of Pittsburgh

• Boricua Girl Activism: The Chicago Young Lords Fight for Educational Justice - Erica R. Davila, Lewis University

Discussant

• Tara J. Yosso, University of California - Riverside