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Direct linkERIC Number: EJ772689
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Mar
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-0161-7761
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The Power of Black and Latina/o Counterstories: Urban Families and College-Going Processes
Knight, Michelle G.; Norton, Nadjwa E. L.; Bentley, Courtney C.; Dixon, Iris R.
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, v35 n1 p99-120 Mar 2004
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. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Parent School Relationship, Family Involvement, Ethnography, Parent Participation, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, College Bound Students, Working Class, Poverty, Parent Role, Feminism, Minority Groups, Grade 9, Interviews, Focus Groups, Culturally Relevant Education, Cultural Relevance
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 9
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Language: English
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