Book Review: Santana, C., Risam, R., Garcia-Guevara, A., Krupczynski, J., Lynch, C., Reiff,J., Vincent, C., Ward, E., & Eatman, T. K. (Eds.). (2023). Anti-RacistCommunity Engagement: Principles and Practices. Campus Compact.
Nearly 15 years ago, I started my graduate career in sociology doing traditional community-based work.At its very core, sociologists study society, social groups, and inequality.Place-based researchers and urban and public sociologists have been in some of the best positions to apply anti-racist community-engaged practices.Unfortunately, replicating past methods and approaches of community-engaged research has left sociologists and many community researchers reasserting the status quo, maintaining complicity with power and privilege (Hartmann, 2022).Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices is about unlearning.After reading this collection, I concluded social researchers across higher education, including myself, need to reconcile and unlearn how they have been taught to do community-engaged studies.As place-based researchers across the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of community and urban social research,
Authors
- Wendie Choudary (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9866-4961)
Institutions
- Binghamton University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Michigan journal of community service learning
- Published
- 2024-11-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3998/mjcsl.6889
- Primary Topic
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00