'Racialised facilitative capital' and the paving of differential paths to achievement of Afro-Trinidadian boys [PowerPoint presentation]

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dc.contributor.authorRampersad, Ravi
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-02T17:01:13Z
dc.date.available2013-07-02T17:01:13Z
dc.date.issued2013-07-02
dc.descriptionPaper presented at the Biennial Conference of The University of the West Indies Schools of Education, 23-25 April, 2013, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobagoen_US
dc.description.abstractInterrogating the achievement of Afro-Trinidadian boys requires a theoretical approach that appreciates both structures of race and their embodiment in daily discourse, and the postcolonial non-white majority context of Trinidad. As such, this paper employs a symbiotic theoretical platform which combines and augments Bourdieu's Sociology and Critical Race Theory (CRT). Adjusting for the context of Trinidad, a concept of 'racialised facilitative capital' is fashioned. While Bourdieu describes capital as the political building blocks of social order that give meaning to social accumulation and consumption, it is argued that in relation to Trinidad, it is also inherently raced. This is premised on an understanding of Trinidadian society as pigmentocratically structured, where lighter skin is rewarded with a myriad of social advantages, and darkness denigrated as illegitimate and 'other.' Arguably, the premium placed on lighter skin is manifested interdependently in the forms of social, economic, and cultural capital. The operation of capital as politic, not only reflects societal structures of power and domination, but importantly also contributes in the maintenance of said structures. The concept of 'Racialised facilitative capital' follows as inseparably both facilitator of social status and as racialised processen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2139/15804
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectAfro-Trinidadian studentsen_US
dc.subjectMale studentsen_US
dc.subjectAcademic achievementen_US
dc.subjectSociology of educationen_US
dc.subjectRacial discriminationen_US
dc.subjectSocial capitalen_US
dc.subjectCritical Race Theoryen_US
dc.subjectSocial factorsen_US
dc.subjectConference papersen_US
dc.subjectTrinidad and Tobagoen_US
dc.title'Racialised facilitative capital' and the paving of differential paths to achievement of Afro-Trinidadian boys [PowerPoint presentation]en_US
dc.typePresentationen_US

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