Event Details

Keynote: Reflections on Community Cultural Wealth and Chicana/o Education: Reclaiming Our Past, Reimagining Our Future

Prof. Yosso’s keynote will reflect on her community cultural wealth model, which she introduced in her book Critical Race Counterstories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline, and in her renowned article “Whose Culture Has Capital?” almost 20 years ago. The CCW model has been received nationally and internationally as a paradigm shift for the ways we have traditionally thought about schooling structures, practices, and discourse. On the eve of this anniversary, Dr. Yosso will ask us to consider how we take up the CCW model fostering a critical historical perspective of the communities we aim to serve. Her timely insights aim to encourage us to draw on the ingenuity and courage of those who have come before us in the struggle for justice and to support our efforts cultivating a community of praxis at Macalester.

Dr. Tara J. Yosso examines access to educational opportunities for Students of Color at critical transition points in their schooling trajectories (e.g., high school to community college, baccalaureate to doctorate). Her research seeks to recover counternarratives of race, schooling, inequality, and the law. Her extensively cited publications examine the ways People of Color utilize community cultural wealth to survive and resist racism and other forms of subordination. She is a first-generation college student and is now a Professor in the School of Education at the University of California Riverside.