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ERIC Number: ED664087
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 131
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 979-8-3463-7696-5
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"I Am My Sister's Keeper" Community Cultural Wealth and Persistence among CUNY's Black, Indigenous, Women of Color (BIWOC) in Computer Science
Constance Barnes-Watson
ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh
There is a purported shortage of employable labor in the tech workforce, yet Black, Indigenous, Women of Color (BIWOC) in urban centers struggle to find and sustain roles in "high-tech." The tech ecosystem is a CIS-gendered, white male heterosexual space that perpetuates and "ideal worker norm" (Kachchaf et al., 2015), which further excludes BIWOC from roles in tech. Given this social construct, fostering persistence among undergraduates who identify as BIWOC is imperative to disrupt this inequitable structure.According to Blaney and Stout (2017), persistence is fostered by a few key factors: sense of belonging, self-efficacy, and overall satisfaction with the undergraduate experience, which is inclusive of faculty and coursework. This dissertation in practice (DiP) posits the Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) (Yosso, 2005) framework as a viable tool to enhance these factors for BIWOC in the City University of New York's (CUNY) Computer Science programs of study.Employing the tenets of Improvement Science, the "Sister Circles" Methodology (Johnson, 2015) served as an intervention by creating "counterspaces" for undergraduate BIWOC to build their cultural capital. The Transformative Mixed Method was utilized to gather both qualitative and quantitative, or "QuantCrit" (Johnson, 2015) data that acknowledges the value of quantitative data in studies associated with components of Critical Race Theory (Crenshaw et al., 1995). Transformative methods give space for a Black Feminist Thought (P. H. Collins, 1989) lens to be applied to the research process. The key findings of the study indicate that Community Cultural Wealth is an underutilized, invaluable resource for fostering persistence in CUNY's BIWOC to persist to careers in high-tech. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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