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Can Community Cultural Wealth Maintain STEM Career Aspirations of Undergraduate Women of Color? Examining HERI Data

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Women of color (WOC) remain underrepresented in the STEM workforce due to systemic racism and sexism. Using Yosso’s (2005) anti-deficit Community Cultural Wealth framework, this study quantitatively explored factors associated with STEM career aspiration persistence among senior WOC undergraduates who entered college with initial STEM career aspirations. Drawing on longitudinal data from the Higher Education Research Institute’s (HERI) 2015 Freshman Survey (TFS) and 2019 College Senior Survey (CSS), we analyzed a sample of 1,460 WOC graduating seniors across 42 institutions using logistic regression. Results revealed that aspirational and navigational capital played pivotal roles in maintaining STEM career aspirations. Specifically, WOC who expressed strong desires to make scientific contributions were significantly more likely to maintain STEM career aspirations. Additionally, WOC who participated in undergraduate research and STEM support programs had significantly higher likelihoods...

Book Review: Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality

Writing Names, Reading Hip Hop: Children (re)Mixing and (re)Making Language, Literacy, and Learning Through the Hip Hop Cultural Naming Practices and Pedagogies of StyleWriting

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Writing Names, Reading Hip Hop reports on the cultural naming practices and pedagogies of the Beats Club, an experimental Language and Literacy(ies) program for children in central Los Angeles (Orellana, 2016). Across three years of play and study in Beats - Stely, Caiyl, Feldspar, Kiboo, Fina, Curipaii and 70 others engaged in the invention and writing of their Club pseudonyms, following the Hip Hop cultural practices known as StyleWriting[1] (Rossomando, 1996). In this dissertation I break down what our Beats Club Naming (BCN) activity is and means, unpacking the names-based Pedagogy(ies) employed and kids’ dynamic Response(s). I ask and answer, how do these naming practices of StyleWriting shape and support children’s pathways to and through Language, Literacy(ies), and Learning.

I take aim at the problem of inequality, and its perpetuation through standardized, Western schooling (Au, 2009; Hill, 1998; Woodson, 1969). I (Hip Hop)...

The Silence of Our Friends: Recognizing Microaggressions

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In a time where there are various representations of race in the United States, many ethnic minority groups still face a number of challenges that are related to the color of their skin, socioeconomic status, national status, and gender. These challenges are referred to as microaggressions. Solorzano & Perez Huber (2012) discusses racial microaggressions specifically as, “one form of systemic everyday racism used to keep those at the racial margins in their place” (p.1489). In this paper, we use Critical Race Theory as a tool and a framework to examine a few different forms of microaggressions, mainly racial microaggressions, from different ethnic groups. We recognize microaggressions continue to exist in our society. Furthermore, we acknowledge that transformational resistance begins when we identify these various forms of microaggressions.

Type-token theory and bibliometrics