Gutter Rainbows and Concrete Roses: Utilizing Community Cultural Wealth to Find Beauty in the Hideous

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This year’s AERA theme, “Non Satis Scire: To Know Is Not Enough”, calls on the educational researcher community to actively engage with communities that exist on the fringes of dominant society and use research “to improve education and serve the public good”. The panel answers this call by approaching Communities of Color with a Community Cultural Wealth (Yosso, 2005) framework that highlights the strengths, beauty, and resistance already present in the realities of marginalized communities. The papers emphasizes what the research community can learn from the lived experiences of People of Color as they experience racial, ethnic, class and gender oppression; the panel aspires to learn with marginalized communities to create opportunities for gutter rainbows and concrete roses to flourish.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Section 5: Social Context of Research on Schools and Communities

Chair

• Lindsay Perez Huber, California State University - Long Beach

Papers

• Beginning With Me: Accounting for Our Counterstories in Socially Just Qualitative Design - Cheryl E. Matias, University of Colorado - Denver

• “So, If You Want to Really Hurt Me, Talk Badly About My Language”: Latina/o Teachers and Linguistic Microaggressions, Implications for Pedagogy and Practice - Elexia Reyes McGovern, University of California - Los Angeles

• Uncovering the Transnational and Navigational Capital of Teachers in the Borderlands - Carol Brochin, The University of Texas - El Paso

• “It’s the Voice of the Voiceless, Hope for the Hopeless”: Envisioning an Aesthetic Capital Through a Community Cultural Wealth Lens - Shiv Raj Desai, Thomas More College; Tyson E.J. Marsh, Iowa State University

Discussant

• Daniel Gilbert Solorzano, University of California - Los Angeles