Polite Racism and Cultural Capital
Afro-Caribbean Negotiations of Blackness in Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5934871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karine Coen-Sanchez (0000-0002-3272-819X, University of Ottawa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 451 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci14080451 |
| OpenAlex | W4412595971 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 22 |
Blackness, both as a racial identity and a marker of cultural difference, disrupts the hegemonic norms embedded in dominant forms of cultural capital. This article examines how first- and second-generation Haitian and Jamaican communities in Ontario and Quebec negotiate Blackness within a Canadian context. Drawing from international literature, it introduces distinctly Canadian concepts-such as polite racism, racial ignominy, and duplicity of consciousness-to illuminate local racial dynamics. Using Yosso's (2005) framework of community cultural wealth, the study analyzes six forms of cultural capital-linguistic, aspirational, social, navigational, resistant, and familial-as employed by Afro-Caribbeans to navigate systemic exclusion. The article expands the limited Canadian discourse on Black identity and offers theoretical tools for understanding how cultural capital is shaped and constrained by race in multicultural democracies
Capital (architecture · Cultural capital · Ethnic group · Geography · Negotiation · Politeness · Political science · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
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Apartheid Diplomacy’s Legacy in South African Higher Education
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Barriers to inclusion among students with disabilities at primary and secondary schools in Trinidad
Resistance and Hope in Balance
Not Quite at Home
Doing Focus Groups
Culture, Class, Distinction
Systematically Disenfranchised
Bankers and Empire
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
The Threat of Race
White Women, Race Matters
Encountering the Metropole
Exploring the use of entity‐relationship diagramming as a technique to support grounded theory inquiry
Race(ing) stories
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Racial identity attitudes and self-esteem of black adolescents in residential care
Navigating Identity and Policy
Education policy as an act of white supremacy
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The Racial Politics of Cultural Capital
Cultural Capital as a Hidden Asset
Symbolic capital and social classes
From textual to visual
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
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| Citations per year | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |