African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education

Community Service, Service-Learning, and Community-Based Research

eISBN-13: 9781438428758

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<p>Looks at town-gown relationships with a focus on African Americans.</p><p>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.</p>

ISBNs 1438428758, 9781438428758, 9781438428741
Language English