TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: Stephanie Y. Evans
Introduction: Colette Taylor
PART I : COMMUNITY SERVICE, VOLUNTEERISM, & ENGAGEMENT
CS Introduction: AACE editors
Kheli R. WillettsThe Community Folk Art Center: A University and Community Creative Collaboration
Kendall M. Campbell A University's Commitment to the Health of an Underserved Community: Exploring Community Service for a Predominantly African-American Population
Joi Nathan African American College Students and Volunteerism: Attitudes Towards Mentoring at a Title I School
Jeff Brooks Pitfalls, Prejudice and Promise: Experiences in Community Service in an Historically Black College or University (HBCU)
PART II: COMMUNITY SERVICE-LEARNING
CSL Introduction: Michelle Dunlap
Lucy Mule Can the Village Educate the Prospective Teacher?: Reflections on Multicultural Service- Learning in African American Communities
August Hoffman, Richard Carifo, Eduardo Sanchez, & Julie Wallach Sowing Seeds of Success: Gardening as a Method of Increasing Academic Self-Efficacy and Retention among African American Students
Troy Harden The Liberator or the Sell Out: Issues of Identity, Place, and Praxis for a Black Man as a Service-Learning Educator in a Predominantly White Institution
Annemarie Vaccaro Racial Identity and the Ethics of Service Learning as Pedagogy
Meta Mendel-Reyes & Dwayne Mack We'll Understand it Better By and By": Three Dimensional Approach to Teaching Race Through Community Engagement
PART III: COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH
CBR Introduction: DeMond Miller
Fleda Mask Jackson Black Like Me: Community-Based Participatory Research with African American Women
Micah McCreary, Monica Jones, John Fife, & Raymond Tademy A Partnership between the African American Church and the University: IMPPACT and S.P.I.C.E.S
Olivia Washington and David Moxley“I Have Three Strikes Against Me”: Narratives of Plight and Efficacy among Older African American Homeless Women and Their Implications for Engaged Inquiry
Richard Briscoe, Harold Keller, Gwen McClain, Evangeline Best, & Jessica Mazza Implementing A Culturally Competent Community-Based Research Approach with African American Neighborhoods: Critical Components and Examples
GiShawn Mance, Bernadette Sanchez, & Niambi Jaha-Echols Community Engagement and Collaborations in Community-Based Research: The Road to Project Butterfly
Final Word: Donald Blake
African Americans and Community Engagement (AACE) discusses race and its roles in university-community partnerships. This edited volume allows students, agency staff, community constituents, faculty, and campus administrators an opportunity to reflect 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 (seen in discussion of "urban" communities or service efforts with Hurricane Katrina survivors), African American identity plays a significant role. This volume offers a cogent platform from which to encourage the difficult (yet much-needed) inclusion of race in dialogues of national service and community engagement. Social change can happen more effectively through critically discussing assumptions, expectations, experiences, and perspectives that emerge when placing race at the center of town-gown communication and practice. The AACE chapters represent best practices, recommendations, personal insight, and informed warnings about building sustainable--and mutually beneficial--relationships.
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