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-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices. Campus Compact.
Year: 2024
Type: book-review
Abstract: 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.
DOI: 10.3998/mjcsl.6889
Author: Wendie N Choudary
Institution: Binghamton University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404519570