Let Them Tell It! CCW’s Influence on Educational Success by Black Graduates of Exam Schools (Poster 24): Division G - Section 3: Languages, Literacies, and Representations, Stage 1, 12:37 PM

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Abstract

This phenomenological study inquires on the experiences of Black students in exam schools and how their capital, Community Cultural Wealth (CCW), supports success in these rigorous public school environments. There has been little written about high achieving Blacks in these contexts despite their documented attendance in these schools for nearly 150 years. The theory of Community Cultural Wealth established by researcher Tara Yosso (2005) is an offshoot of Critical Race Theory that counters racialized deficit constructions of Communities of Color by explicating the assets that their members of possess: aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, navigational, and resistant capital. Yosso theorizes that Students of Color would obtain better outcomes if their CCW knowledge and values were centered in schools.

Author

• Soul Brown, Rhode Island School of Design