African Americans and community engagement in higher education : community service, service-learning, and community-based research / edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, 3 others.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Stephanie Y., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community and college--United States.

Community and college.

Service learning--United States.

Service learning.

African American college students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 263 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book discusses race and its roles in university-community partnerships. The contributors take a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and multiregional approach that allows students, agency staff, community constituents, faculty, and campus administrators an opportunity to reflect on and redefine what impact African American identity—in the academy and in the community—has on various forms of community engagement. From historic concepts of "race uplift" to contemporary debates about racialized perceptions of need, they argue that African American identity plays a significant role. In representing best practices, recommendations, personal insight, and informed warnings about building sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships, the contributors provide a cogent platform from which to encourage the difficult and much-needed inclusion of race in dialogues of national service and community engagement.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of Tables

Using History, Experience, and Theory to Balance Relationships in Community Engagement

Acknowledgments

Characteristics of Engagement

Community Service, Volunteerism, and Engagement

The Community Folk Art Center

An African American Health Care Experience

African American College Students and Volunteerism

Prejudice, Pitfalls, and Promise

Community Service-Learning

Can the Village Educate the Prospective Teacher?

Sowing Seeds of Success

A Service or a Commitment?

Racial Identity and the Ethics of Service-Learning as Pedagogy

“We’ll Understand It Better By and By”

Community-Based Research

Black Like Me

A Partnership with the African American Church

“I Have Three Strikes Against Me”

A Culturally Competent Community-Based Research Approach with African American Neighborhoods

Community Engagement and Collaborations in Community-Based Research

African Americans and Community Engagement

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4384-2875-8

1-4416-2413-9