Anti-Racist Community Engagement

Foreword—Timothy K. Eatman
Acknowledgements
Introduction — From Guiding Principles to Guiding Practices: Making Anti-racist Community Engagement Legible and Replicable—Roopika Risam, Elaine Ward, Christina Santana, Cynthia Lynch

Principles for Anti-racist Community Engagement

PART I - Principle 1
Counteracting the Persistence and Impact of Racism on our Campuses and in our Community Engagement: Reframing our institutional and pedagogic practices—Cynthia Lynch, Christina Santana

How to Be an Anti-racist Researcher: An Example of Institutional Change—Alicia Cooper Ellis, Sharrell Hassell-Goodman, Meagan Call-Cummings, Robert L. Graham, Marvin G. Powell

Our Voices: Storytelling and Listening in Anti-racism Educational Practices—Raeann LeBlanc, Lucinda Canty, Frankie Manning, Sharon Latimer-Mosley, Gayle Robinson

Working with the Community to Re-establish Trust and Engage Authentically and Sustainably—Alex Henry, Anita Randolph, raj sethuraju
Equitable Scaling for Social Justice Dialogue Programs: A Case Study of the Community Engagement Advocates Program at Tulane University—Sienna Abdulahad, Abi Mbaye

By and for Latinx Community Members: Mi Libro Mi Espejo Story Time as Anti-racist Case Study—Ada Vilageliu-Diaz, Claudia Díaz, Diana Atenco-González

PART II - Principle 2
Critical Reflection on Individual and Systemic/Structural Racism: Understanding positionality, bias and historic roots of systemic racism—Elaine Ward, Joseph Krupczynski

Working Against Racism through Cross Institutional Communities of Practice—Aaliyah Baker, Marisol Morales, Sharyn Lowenstein, John Reiff

Campus Coalitions Towards Indigenous Futures: ARCE Reflections on Institutional and Pedagogical Change—Meredith McCoy, Sinda Nichols, Zia NoiseCat, Paul Dressen

Addressing Anti-Blackness through Place-Based Work—Dresden June Frazier, Karin Cotterman, Carla Trujillo

Sowing Seeds of Justice: The Roxbury Community College Garden—Fahmil Shah, Nasreen Latif

Qi Gong; (Re)centering the Body and Community Knowledge in Community Engagement—athy Yep

Anti-racist Community Engagement: Washington County Community Remembrance Memorial Marker—Valandra, RoAnne Elliott, LaShawnda Fields

Strategies for dealing with racism from African American Women Elders to a Younger Generation—Priscilla Gibson, Jessica Coleman

PART III - Principle 3
Intentional Learning/Course Design: Developing anti-racist learning goals, course content, policies and assessment—Aldo Garcia-Guevara, Cindy Vincent

Sticky Family and the Transformative Power of Making Together—Katie Price, Yaroub Al-Obaidi

Centering Counterstories in Anti-racist Podcasting Pedagogies—Brooke Covington, Cameron Bertrand

Making Community Engagement Meaningful: Student & Community Partner Perspectives—Loan Dao, Sarah Beth Dempsey, Teresa Giacoman

The Power of “No” - Creating space to acknowledge and challenge power dynamics in the community engaged educator’s classroom—Nicole Williams, Mayreni Villegas, Elaine Ward, Mona Savastano

Ungrading Engagement: Assessment Practices for an Anti-racist Classroom—jesús hernández, Carmine Perrotti

PART IV - Principle 4
Compassionate/Reflective Classroom: Create a sense of belonging in the classroom by acknowledging student contributions and meeting students where they are—John Reiff, Roopika Risam

“Doing the Work:” Making Space for Undergraduate Students to Participate in Anti-racist Community Engagement—Carlea Dolcine, Deborah Keisch, Maurice Powe, Lindiwe Sibeko

Communal Place, Communal Learning: An Approach to Student-Centered Community Engagement—Olga Correa, Kelsey Ruiz, Anastasia Morton

The Front Porch Gathering as a Compassionate Classroom—Suchitra V. Gururaj, Jeremy D. Horne, Meme Styles, Emmett E. Campos

Treading on the Sound of Our Own Beat: What We Learn about Education from Black Girls—Alexandria C. Onuoha

"The Class Feels Like It Should Be Illegal:" Latinx Experiences and the Promise of Anti-racist Pedagogies—Aldo García-Guevara, Francisco Vivoni

Conclusion — The Work Ahead: Building Systemic Change for Liberation and Justice through Anti-racist Community Engagement—Aldo Garcia-Guevara, Joseph Krupczynski, John Reiff, Cindy Vincent

Christina Santana

Christina Santana is an Associate Professor English (writing) at Worcester State University. She enjoys working collaboratively – especially across different experience and expertise – and on projects that enable/empower others to contribute to the common good.

Roopika Risam

Roopika Risam is an associate professor in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster at Dartmouth College. Her research examines how digital methods can bring untold stories about Black, brown, and Indigenous communities to new audiences. She is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (Northwestern UP, 2019).

Aldo Garcia-Guevara

Aldo Garcia-Guevara is professor of History at Worcester State University. He has spent his academic career developing and creating community-engaged courses and experiences for students, locally and internationally, applying anti-racist principles to these efforts. His publications include articles for The Journal of World History and World History Connected.

Joseph Krupczynski

Joseph Krupczynski is a professor of Architecture and the Director of Civic Engagement & Service-Learning at UMass Amherst. A first-generation college student from a Puerto Rican and Polish family, his scholarship and creative practice is founded on cross-cultural investigations that catalyze transformative engagement, liberatory learning and spatial justice.

Cynthia Lynch

Cynthia Lynch is the Executive Director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Salem State University. Her research and praxis focus on the intersection of civic engagement, equity, and student and community success. Her publications include articles for AAC&U’s Diversity and Democracy and the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.

John Reiff

John Reiff has worked with civic engagement and service-learning in higher education since 1980—teaching, directing service-learning/civic engagement offices, then since 2015 working through the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education where he helps Massachusetts’s 29 public colleges and universities rethink civic learning through a lens of racial equity.

Cindy Vincent

Cindy Vincent is an associate professor at Salem State University, whose career has focused on community relations and community engagement for over 20 years. Her current research focuses on equity-based approaches to community engagement through critically engaged civic learning and has been published in the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.

Elaine Ward

Elaine Ward is an associate professor, Chair of the higher education department and Special Assistant to the President for Civic and Community Engagement at Merrimack College. Elaine is an immigrant and first-generation college student. Her research interests include institutionalization of community engagement; promotion and tenure; and equitable community university partnerships.

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