Young black males
Resilience and the use of capital to transform school ‘failure’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cecile Wright (University of Nottingham, corresponding author), Uvanney Maylor (0000-0003-1254-7524, University of Bedfordshire), Sophie Becker (Neon Century (United Kingdom)) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-34 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-8487 • E-ISSN: 1750-8495 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17508487.2016.1117005 |
| OpenAlex | W2232960020 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 48 |
This article addresses the idea of ‘failure’ of young black males with respect to schooling. Perceptions of black masculinity are often linked to ‘underperformance’ in the context of school academic achievement. This article addresses how young black men, by great personal effort, recover from school ‘failure’. It explores how young black men, despite negative school experiences, see possibilities for their future and how they seek to transform school ‘failure’ into personal and educational ‘success’. Low attainment combined with permanent/temporary exclusion from school does not necessarily deter young black men from pursuing their education. This low attainment is used by some to make a renewed attempt at educational progression in a different post-school learning environment. Yosso’s concept of ‘community cultural wealth’ provides an understanding of how different forms of capital are accessed by young black men to form a ‘turnaround narrative’. This article considers the complex ways in which young black males work to transform their negative school experience. Their narratives reveal a determination to succeed and the ways in which cultivation of this determination by the family, organisational/community agents promotes a sense of possibility. However, it remains to be seen how, in the UK, the cuts to vital local services and support will impact on this sense of possibility
Context (archaeology · Cultural capital · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Masculinity · Narrative · Psychological resilience · Social science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Education Systems and Policy · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Revisiting ‘resilience’ in light of racism, ‘othering’ and resistance
Paroxysm
Missing misters
Make sure we don’t lose who we are’
I didn’t want to be a statistic’
Alternative spaces of failure. Disabled ‘bad boys’ in alternative further education provision
Conceptualizing possibilities for Black boys through the educational continuum
Adapting, Disrupting, and Resisting
The Etons of the East End
Supplementary schools as sites of access to community cultural wealth and funds of knowledge in Flanders, Belgium
Challenging university complicity and majoritarian narratives
Countering Educational Disparities Among Black Boys and Black Adolescent Boys from Pre-K to High School
Framing Intersectionality
Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities
Racism and Education
Living the Drama
Blacked Out
Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education
Judith Butler
Class and Stratification
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Global Generations and the Trap of Methodological Nationalism For a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Youth and Generation
Black British Intellectuals and Education
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
The Politics of Black Presence in Britain and Black Male Exclusion in the British Education System
“The Silent Catastrophe”
Gender Trouble
Understanding black academic attainment
Losing an arm’
I am a Promise
The impact of religion on the educational achievement of Black boys
Learning, literacy and identity
Race, gender and educational desire
Identity Traps or How Black [1] Students Fail
Exploring the impact of supplementary schools on Black and Minority Ethnic pupils’ mainstream attainment
The White British‐Black Caribbean achievement gap
African American high school students and variability in behavior across classrooms
Them and Us’
Diversity ≠ Inclusion
The Net Black Advantage in Educational Transitions
From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt
The essence of innocence
Introduction and Overview
A Useful Extension of Bourdieu's Conceptual Framework
Inequality, Segregation, and the Overrepresentation of African Americans in School Suspensions
The Public Identities of the Black Middle Classes
The Complexity of Intersectionality
Demographic Profiles and Social Cohesion of Minority Ethnic Communities in England and Wales
Dealing with difference
Caribbean families, social capital and young people's diasporic identities
Spaces and Places of Black Educational Desire
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |