Counter Stories, in response to Majoritarian Scripts, serve four functions:

1. a) They can build community among those at the margins of society by putting a human and familiar face to educational theory and practice,

(b) they can challenge the perceived wisdom of those at society’s center by providing a context to understand and transform established belief systems,

(c) they can open new windows into the reality of those at the margins of society by showing possibilities beyond the ones they live and demonstrating that they are not alone in their position, and

(d) they can teach others that by combining elements from both the story and the current reality, one can construct another world that is richer than either the story or the reality alone. Counterstory telling is different from fictional storytelling.

-Scholars Daniel G Solozano & Tara Y. Yosso