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List of Tables ix
Preface: Using History, Experience, and Theory to Balance Relationships in Community Engagement Stephanie Y. Evans xi
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction: Characteristics of Engagement: Communicated Experiences of Race, Universities, and Communities Colette M. Taylor 1
Part 1 Community Service, Volunteerism, and Engagement Stephanie Y. Evans Colette M. Taylor Michelle R. Dunlap DeMond S. Miller 11
1 The Community Folk Art Center: A University and Community Creative Collaboration Kheli R. Willetts 17
2 An African American Health Care Experience: An Academic Medical Center and Its Interdisciplinary Practice Kendall M. Campbell 29
3 African American College Students and Volunteerism: Attitudes toward Mentoring at a Title I School Joi Nathan 41
4 Prejudice, Pitfalls, and Promise: Experiences in Community Service in a Historically Black University Jeff Brooks 53
Part 2 Community Service-Learning Michelle R. Dunlap 67
5 Can the Village Educate the Prospective Teacher?: Reflections on Multicultural Service-Learning in African American Communities Lucy Mule 71
6 Sowing Seeds of Success: Gardening as a Method of Increasing Academic Self-Efficacy and Retention among African American Students August Hoffman Julie Wallach Eduardo Sanchez Richard Carifo 89
7 A Service or a Commitment?: A Black Man Teaching Service-Learning at a Predominantly White Institution Troy Harden 105
8 Racial Identity and the Ethics of Service-Learning as Pedagogy Annemarie Vaccaro 119
9 "We'll Understand It Better By and By": A Three-Dimensional Approach to Teaching Race through Community Engagement Meta Mendel-Reyes Dwayne A. Mack135
Part 3 Community-Based Research DeMond S. Miller 149
10 Black Like Me: Navigating Race, Gender, Research, and Community Fleda Mask Jackson 157
11 A Partnership with the African American Church: IMPPACT and S.P.I.C.E.S. For Life Micah McCreary Monica Jones Raymond Tademy John Fife 173
12 "I Have Three Strikes Against Me": Narratives of Plight and Efficacy among Older African American Homeless Women and Their Implications for Engaged Inquiry Olivia G. M. Washington David P. Moxley 189
13 A Culturally Competent Community-Based Research Approach with African American Neighborhoods: Critical Components and Examples Richard Briscoe Harold R. Keller Gwen McClain Evangeline R. Best Jessica Mazza 205
14 Community Engagement and Collaborations in Community-Based Research: The Road to Project Butterfly GiShawn Mance Bernadette Sánchez Niambi Jaha-Echols 225
Final Word: African Americans and Community Engagement: The Challenge and Opportunity for Higher Education Donald F. Blake 241
List of Contributors 249
Index 255
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reviewed African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education: Community Service, ServiceLearning, and Community-Based Research on May 14, 2011
African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education: Community Service, ServiceLearning, and Community-Based Research
This is an enlightening book and also obviously the book of a young man as it is at times both overwhelmingly idealistic and alarmingly naive. Pat Conroy agreed to teach for a year on Yamacraw Island off the coast of South Carolina. There he encounters a world apart, conditions unlike anything he has encountered in his teaching on the mainland. He is to teach the children of the island, the people who used to live from fishing but now can't support themselves from polluted waters. He encounters children who are savvy but unschooled for all the time they have spent in the classroom. He learns of various types of prejudice that attack them individually and as a group in order to keep them untaught and unteachable. There is an overarching lack of concern as long as discipline is maintained.
Conroy writes of his experiments in teaching methods and his gambles with the authorities to try new activities with the children. He also daringly spares the rod! This is an eye-opening memoir, even though it is no longer a new book. It remains a worthwhile read. Perhaps my greatest take-away from it is to try to know the people to whom I speak, with whom I would like to work or deal. The surface definitely does not reveal all.
Conroy's prose is beautiful; he captures the natural world around him so wonderfully. He also captures the individual children and their families so well. You will feel that you have met many of them by the time you have finished reading this book.
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