Whose Culture Has Capital? A Critical Race Theory Discussion of Community Cultural Wealth

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Title

Whose Culture Has Capital? A Critical Race Theory Discussion of Community Cultural Wealth

Abstract/Description

This article conceptualizes community cultural wealth as a critical race theory (CRT) challenge to traditional interpretations of cultural capital. CRT shifts the research lens away from a deficit view of Communities of Color as places full of cultural poverty disadvantages, and instead focuses on and learns from the array of cultural knowledge, skills, abilities and contacts possessed by socially marginalized groups that often go unrecognized and unacknowledged. Various forms of capital nurtured through cultural wealth include aspirational, navigational, social, linguistic, familial and resistant capital. These forms of capital draw on the knowledges Students of Color bring with them from their homes and communities into the classroom. This CRT approach to education involves a commitment to develop schools that acknowledge the multiple strengths of Communities of Color in order to serve a larger purpose of struggle toward social and racial justice.

Author/creator

Yosso, Tara J.

Date

2005

In publication

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volume

8

Issue

1

Pages

69-91

Resource type

en Background/Context

Medium

en Print

Background/context type

en Conceptual

Open access/free-text available

en No

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

1361-3324

DOI

10.1080/1361332052000341006

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (Taylor & Francis)

Citation

Yosso , T. J. (2005). Whose Culture Has Capital? A Critical Race Theory Discussion of Community Cultural Wealth. Race Ethnicity and Education, 8(1), 69–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/1361332052000341006

Cited in

Critical Perspectives on the Contexts of Improvement Research in Education

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Theoretical

en Methodological

Item sets

Handbook Chapter 11 Citations

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