Community Is the Way
Engaged Writing and Designing for Transformative Change
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Community Is the Way
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Aimée Knight
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Aimée Knight
How can we design for equity and justice in our community partnerships? This field guide offers a vision for enacting social justice with community partners. Working from a community’s resources and strengths toward the goal of building its internal capacity, this book considers how actions such as grassroots activism, decolonization efforts, co-resistance movements, and social change initiatives can support reciprocity and mutuality. Community is the Way provides examples of concrete, situated action grounded in disciplinary knowledge and extensive fieldwork. Reflecting on her experiences operating a community writing program, author Aimée Knight argues that the equity-based approach described in this book requires a commitment to interrogating how power, oppression, resistance, privilege, penalties, benefits, and harms are built into the systems we seek to change. Knight offers a community-led approach that builds bridges of understanding and support and charts a path toward transformative change.
©2022 University Press of Colorado (P)2022 University Press of ColoradoCritic reviews
"This book will reshape and reconstruct the thought process of readers from all teaching levels and help them move forward by aiming at transforming an unjust, oppressive, discriminatory, racialized, gendered, and capitalistic system into a more just, more sustainable, and more equitable community"—Composition Studies
"Practical guide for instructors who are already committed to community reading and for those who are seeking ways to get into community work."—Reflections