1. Literacy for the community: Counter-storytelling and social change Enid M. Rosario Ramos School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University Community as Intellectual Space : June, 2009 This research is funded by the Adolescent Literacy Fellowship from the National Academy of Education.
Many young people of color in urban contexts are forced to negotiate difficult living conditions. Their ability to transform their socioeconomic conditions might be dependent on their ability to analyze and challenge social structures and to actively engage in the reconstruction of those structures. This paper will discuss how marginalized communities’ development of counter-stories (Solórzano & Yosso, 2001, 2002) plays a central role in their efforts towards social change. These counter-stories provide alternative perspectives on community members’ lives that challenge mainstream master narratives about their experiences
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