2019
DOI: 10.1177/1749975519839521
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The Racial Politics of Cultural Capital: Perspectives from Black Middle-Class Pupils and Parents in a London Comprehensive

Abstract: Drawing on 13 in-depth interviews and three focus-group interviews with Black middle-class pupils, along with 14 in-depth interviews with their parents, this article highlights Black parents’ and pupils’ strategic use of Black cultural capital to contest White hegemony in the curricula at a large state comprehensive school in South London. The findings of this study underscore the racial politics of cultural capital as experienced by the Black middle classes. The results also spotlight the quiet alliances betw… Show more

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“…Some applicants into teaching from ME backgrounds lack the tools to navigate within this predominantly White, mostly middle‐class system. Wallace (2019) reflects on the significant role of Black middle‐class parents who input into the school system and suggests that Black teachers contribute to this category. He reports on the need for schools to consider Black middle‐class parents as agents for change, alongside pupils.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some applicants into teaching from ME backgrounds lack the tools to navigate within this predominantly White, mostly middle‐class system. Wallace (2019) reflects on the significant role of Black middle‐class parents who input into the school system and suggests that Black teachers contribute to this category. He reports on the need for schools to consider Black middle‐class parents as agents for change, alongside pupils.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Hughes (1971; see Leidner 1991) observed, laborers make their work tolerable by casting it as glorious. Middle-class Black families in predominantly White environments cultivate feelings of racial pride, worth, and solidarity to insulate against prevailing racism (Banks 2012; Vincent et al 2013; Wallace 2019; see also Dawson 2020; Monk 2020). However, narratives of worth can also be problematic.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, due to their racial marginalization and distrust of whitedominated institutions and organizations, middle-class black people struggle to activate cultural capital: cultural capital activation sometimes requires them to repress their feelings and to detract from their racial interests (Lareau and Horvat 1999;Wallace 2017). Thus, despite having access to cultural resources, middle-class black people often resist or are ambivalent about activating them as their values, tastes, and interests are oftentimes in conflict with those of dominant institutions (Banks 2012;Lareau and Horvat 1999;Wallace 2017Wallace , 2019.…”
Section: Cultural Capital Activation Takes Place In Racially Stratifi...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Because many middle‐class black people understand institutions and organizations to be racialized structures that systematically marginalize black people, they use their cultural capital to counter racial stereotypes, monitor institutional actors to ensure fair treatment, and minimize the racial discrimination directed toward themselves and their racial group (Dow 2019; Lacy 2007; Lareau and Horvat 1999; Rollock, Gillborn, and Vincent 2011; Rollock et al. 2015; Vincent, Rollock, and Ball 2012; Wallace 2017, 2019).…”
Section: Cultural Capital and The Black Middle Classmentioning
confidence: 99%