Civic Engagement in Diverse Latinx Communities

Mari Castañeda (Ph.D., Communication, University of California, San Diego) is Professor and Chair of Communication at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Joseph Krupczynski (M.Sci., Design, University of Massachusetts-Amherst) is Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of Civic Engagement and Service Learning at University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

• Acknowledgements – Mari Castañeda/Joseph Krupczynski: Introduction: Toward a Latinx Community-Academic Praxis of Civic Engagement – Section I: Rethinking Community and Civic Engagement – Antonieta Mercado: Civic Engagement: Learning From Teaching Community Praxis – Joseph Krupczynski: Imagining a Nueva Casita: Puerto Rican Subjectivities and the Space of the "In-between" on an Urban Farm in Western Massachusetts – Claudia A. Evans-Zepeda: Subject-Heading or Social Justice Solidarity? Civic Engagement Practices of Latinx Undocumented Immigrant Students – Marisel Moreno: Keeping It Real: Bridging U.S. Latino/a Literature and Community Through Student Engagement – Clara Román-Odio/Patricia Mota/Amelia Dunnell: Public Humanities and Community-Engaged Learning: Building Strategies for Undergraduate Research and Civic Engagement – Section II: Community Voices and the Politics of Place – Jonathan Rosa: Community as a Campus: From "Problems" to Possibilities in Latinx Communities – Judith Flores Carmona: Motherists’ Pedagogies of Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Rights and Space in a Xenophobic Era – J. Estrella Torrez: Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Respect: Storytelling as a Means of University-Community Engagement – Celeste Gonzaìlez de Bustamante: Arizona-Sonora 360: Examining and Teaching Contested Moral Geographies Along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands – Ginetta E. B. Candelario: Saber es Poder: Teaching and Learning About Social Inequality in a New England Latin@ Community – Section III: Expanding the Media and Cultural Power of Communities – Jillian M. Báez: Media Literacy as Civic Engagement – Katynka Z. Martínez: "I Exist Because You Exist:" Teaching History and Supporting Student Engagement via Bilingual Community Journalism – Jessica Retis: Hashtag Jovenes Latinos: Teaching Civic Advocacy Journalism in Glocal Contexts – Sonya M. Alemán: Chicana/o Media Pedagogies: How Activism and Engagement Transform Student of Color Journalists – Rogelio Miñana: Lessons From Migrant Youth: Digital Storytelling and the Engaged Humanities in Springfield, MA – Contributors – Index.

“This is one of the most exciting and important books on civic engagement in higher education in some time. It answers the call from the past decade of scholarship for critical frameworks and social justice approaches to service learning and community engagement. The scholars contributing to this book provide cogent examples of exemplary practices of engagement that enact authentic reciprocity in a context of social justice partnerships that form the basis for collaborative teaching and learning and new knowledge generation. Engagement with Latinx communities, by and with Latinix scholars and students, informs service learning and community engagement practices across disciplines and different sectors of higher education. This is exactly the book the field needs now. I will be including is as required reading in my civic engagement courses.”—John Saltmarsh, Professor of Higher Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston