Community cultural wealth is a framework developed by education scholar Tara J. Yosso, first presented in a 2005 article that challenged deficit-based readings of cultural capital theory. It takes an asset-oriented approach to the cultural knowledge, skills, relationships and forms of resilience that communities draw upon in educational and other institutional settings, treating these as genuine forms of wealth rather than as deficits to be corrected. Since its introduction the framework has been applied nationally and internationally across research, policy, curriculum design and community-based initiatives.
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Core ClaimCommunities of Color hold forms of cultural wealth, including aspirational, navigational, social, linguistic, familial and resistant capital, that traditional cultural capital theory overlooks, and schools should recognize and build on these strengths rather than view these communities through a deficit lens. 1 FAQs
What forms of capital does community cultural wealth describe?
It names six forms: aspirational, navigational, social, linguistic, familial and resistant capital.
Community cultural wealth, as Tara J. Yosso presented it in 2005, names six forms of capital that communities nurture: aspirational, navigational, social, linguistic, familial and resistant capital. These forms of capital draw on the knowledges that students of color bring with them from their homes and communities into the classroom.
How does community cultural wealth differ from traditional readings of cultural capital?
It replaces a deficit view of communities of color with a focus on the cultural strengths those communities hold.
Community cultural wealth offers a critical race theory challenge to traditional interpretations of cultural capital. Instead of a deficit view of communities of color as places full of cultural poverty and disadvantage, it focuses on and learns from the cultural knowledge, skills, abilities and contacts that socially marginalized groups possess, which often go unrecognized and unacknowledged.
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Source Tara J. Yosso (Wikipedia)
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1. ERIC: Whose Culture Has Capital? A Critical Race Theory Discussion of Community Cultural Wealth
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This article conceptualizes community cultural wealth as a critical race theory (CRT) challenge to traditional interpretations of cultural capital.
Tara J. Yosso (Wikipedia)
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is widely recognized for developing the Community Cultural Wealth framework
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