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The Power of Black and Latina/o Counterstories: Urban Families and College‐Going Processes
Author(s) -
KNIGHT MICHELLE G.,
NORTON NADJWA E. L.,
BENTLEY COURTNEY C.,
DIXON IRIS R.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2004.35.1.99
Subject(s) - sociology , ethnography , gender studies , power (physics) , black power , diversity (politics) , class (philosophy) , critical race theory , critical ethnography , working class , racism , politics , anthropology , political science , epistemology , law , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
This article examines the diversity of practices utilized by working‐class and poor black and Latina/o families to support their children's college‐going processes. We employ the work of feminists, scholars of color, and critical ethnographers to critique the power undergirding the monolithic model establishing one entry point of parental involvement in urban schools. Then, drawing on data from a one‐year critical ethnography of 27 black and Latina/o youth, we illustrate the ways counterstories expanded entry points of family involvement within the lives of black and Latina/o college‐bound youth . [minorities, youth, college‐going, family, counterstories]