African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education: Community Service, Service-Learning, and Community-Based Research

Book Overview

Looks at town-gown relationships with a focus on African Americans.

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143842874X
• ISBN13: 9781438428741
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary