Crystal P. Glover is assistant professor of early childhood education at Winthrop University.Toby S. Jenkins is Associate professor in the curriculum studies program at the University of South Carolina.Stephanie Troutman is the assistant professor of Emerging Literacies at The University of Arizona.

• Prologue: Coming Back to the Park: Community Cultural Wealth as a Source of Strength, Knowledge, and Sustenance, Toni M. Williams Introduction: The Cultural Road to the Doctorate, Drs. Toby S. Jenkins, Stephanie Troutman, and Crystal Polite GloverPreface: Untitled Poem, Crystal L. EndsleySection I. Redefining Wealth: Family, Community, and Education Beyond SchoolChapter 1: Dirt Roads & Shotgun Houses: Where does genius call home? Toby S. JenkinsPersonal NarrativesSection II. Intersecting Identities: Personal Geography/ies, Social Class, and Race Chapter 2: Incidents in the Life of a Black/Bi-Racial Jersey Girl, Stephanie TroutmanPersonal NarrativesSection III: Navigating Tough Terrain: Cultural Resistance, Schooling Culture, and Liberatory Education Chapter 3: The Only One: A Black Girl’s Experiences in Gifted and Talented Education, Crystal P. GloverPersonal NarrativesChapter 4: Conclusion: Contesting Privilege, Toby S. Jenkins, Stephanie Troutman, and Crystal Polite-GloverAbout the authors

Deeply engaging and highly accessible, Culture, Community, and Educational Success: Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack is a transformative text that illuminates the complexities of race, social class, gender, family, and community as they shape learning in K-12 and higher education. Jenkins, Troutman, and Glover utilize intersectional analysis and critical pedagogies as a lens for examining structures of power and dominance. By offering readers both theoretical examinations and personal narratives, Culture, Community, and Educational Success: Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack makes an essential intervention into conversations about teaching and learning at the intersections of racialization and poverty; the authors dismantle deficit-based paradigms and assert the significance of liberatory education. Higher education researcher and professionals, K-12 education scholars and teachers, as well as administrators at all levels, will find the valuable insights offered in this book to be a vision for liberatory praxis that they too can implement.

Crystal P. Glover is assistant professor of early childhood education at Winthrop University.Toby S. Jenkins is Associate professor in the curriculum studies program at the University of South Carolina.Stephanie Troutman is the assistant professor of Emerging Literacies at The University of Arizona.

• Prologue: Coming Back to the Park: Community Cultural Wealth as a Source of Strength, Knowledge, and Sustenance, Toni M. Williams Introduction: The Cultural Road to the Doctorate, Drs. Toby S. Jenkins, Stephanie Troutman, and Crystal Polite GloverPreface: Untitled Poem, Crystal L. EndsleySection I. Redefining Wealth: Family, Community, and Education Beyond SchoolChapter 1: Dirt Roads & Shotgun Houses: Where does genius call home? Toby S. JenkinsPersonal NarrativesSection II. Intersecting Identities: Personal Geography/ies, Social Class, and Race Chapter 2: Incidents in the Life of a Black/Bi-Racial Jersey Girl, Stephanie TroutmanPersonal NarrativesSection III: Navigating Tough Terrain: Cultural Resistance, Schooling Culture, and Liberatory Education Chapter 3: The Only One: A Black Girl’s Experiences in Gifted and Talented Education, Crystal P. GloverPersonal NarrativesChapter 4: Conclusion: Contesting Privilege, Toby S. Jenkins, Stephanie Troutman, and Crystal Polite-GloverAbout the authors

Deeply engaging and highly accessible, Culture, Community, and Educational Success: Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack is a transformative text that illuminates the complexities of race, social class, gender, family, and community as they shape learning in K-12 and higher education. Jenkins, Troutman, and Glover utilize intersectional analysis and critical pedagogies as a lens for examining structures of power and dominance. By offering readers both theoretical examinations and personal narratives, Culture, Community, and Educational Success: Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack makes an essential intervention into conversations about teaching and learning at the intersections of racialization and poverty; the authors dismantle deficit-based paradigms and assert the significance of liberatory education. Higher education researcher and professionals, K-12 education scholars and teachers, as well as administrators at all levels, will find the valuable insights offered in this book to be a vision for liberatory praxis that they too can implement.

Crystal P. Glover is assistant professor of early childhood education at Winthrop University.Toby S. Jenkins is Associate professor in the curriculum studies program at the University of South Carolina.Stephanie Troutman is the assistant professor of Emerging Literacies at The University of Arizona.

• Prologue: Coming Back to the Park: Community Cultural Wealth as a Source of Strength, Knowledge, and Sustenance, Toni M. Williams Introduction: The Cultural Road to the Doctorate, Drs. Toby S. Jenkins, Stephanie Troutman, and Crystal Polite GloverPreface: Untitled Poem, Crystal L. EndsleySection I. Redefining Wealth: Family, Community, and Education Beyond SchoolChapter 1: Dirt Roads & Shotgun Houses: Where does genius call home? Toby S. JenkinsPersonal NarrativesSection II. Intersecting Identities: Personal Geography/ies, Social Class, and Race Chapter 2: Incidents in the Life of a Black/Bi-Racial Jersey Girl, Stephanie TroutmanPersonal NarrativesSection III: Navigating Tough Terrain: Cultural Resistance, Schooling Culture, and Liberatory Education Chapter 3: The Only One: A Black Girl’s Experiences in Gifted and Talented Education, Crystal P. GloverPersonal NarrativesChapter 4: Conclusion: Contesting Privilege, Toby S. Jenkins, Stephanie Troutman, and Crystal Polite-GloverAbout the authors

Deeply engaging and highly accessible, Culture, Community, and Educational Success: Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack is a transformative text that illuminates the complexities of race, social class, gender, family, and community as they shape learning in K-12 and higher education. Jenkins, Troutman, and Glover utilize intersectional analysis and critical pedagogies as a lens for examining structures of power and dominance. By offering readers both theoretical examinations and personal narratives, Culture, Community, and Educational Success: Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack makes an essential intervention into conversations about teaching and learning at the intersections of racialization and poverty; the authors dismantle deficit-based paradigms and assert the significance of liberatory education. Higher education researcher and professionals, K-12 education scholars and teachers, as well as administrators at all levels, will find the valuable insights offered in this book to be a vision for liberatory praxis that they too can implement.