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    Young black males: resilience and the use of capital to transform school ‘failure’

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    Authors
    Wright, Cecile
    Maylor, Uvanney
    Becker, Sophie
    Issue Date
    2016-01-06
    Subjects
    aspirational capital
    resistant
    success
    navigational capital
    familial capital
    young black males
    social capital
    identity
    
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    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.
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    Wright C, Maylor U, Becker S (2016) 'Young black males: resilience and the use of capital to transform school ‘failure’', Critical Studies in Education, 57 (1), pp.21-34.
    Publisher
    Routledge
    Journal
    Critical Studies in Education
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/624400
    DOI
    10.1080/17508487.2016.1117005
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    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17508487.2016.1117005?journalCode=rcse20
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1750-8487
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1080/17508487.2016.1117005
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