Reading and writing personal narratives offers a way to address issues of racism and counter the deficit-identity that White culture, particularly in education, puts on multilingual, immigrant and refugee students. This anti-racist approach to literacy can help students to realize that “as presently conceived, the education system does not serve the interest of minority groups”.11 With that information students will be able to analyze the resources and information being presented to them through curriculum, materials, and instruction and determine if these aspects of education are creating a positive or negative narrative about people of color, multilingual people, immigrants and refugees. They will then be able to counter any of these negative biases that have been used to uphold forms of oppression by crafting their own narratives that reflect their identity and the way they wish to be seen. By sharing counter-narratives, students are able to take back the role of expert, gain power, and have some control over the construction of knowledge in their classroom.12