Hiramori and Colleagues Develop a Measure of Community Cultural Wealth
Posted: 2024-02-08 13:00:39 (CSDE Research)
CSDE Affiliate Dr. Daiki Hiramori (Global and Interdisciplinary Studies, Hosei University) recently published an article with colleagues in the Race Ethnicity and Education, titled “Critically quantitative: measuring community cultural wealth on surveys“. Their study explores the quantitative measurement of Community Cultural Wealth (CCW), an asset-based approach to understanding the experiences of students from systemically marginalized racial/ethnic groups. Grounded in critical race theory, CCW focuses on forms of capital utilized by marginalized populations that are often unrecognized/undervalued by traditional social science research. Most previous studies on CCW have relied on qualitative methods; authors argue that quantitative critical race theory, or ‘QuantCrit’, can complement those studies by statistically specifying assets possessed by students from marginalized populations as a step toward reimagining institutions that elevate their importance. This paper aims to develop a CCW scale to quantitatively explore the concept.