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Description
The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, community assessment, and the power of the arts, the Internet, social media, and policy and media advocacy in such work. The use of participatory evaluation and strategies and tips on fundraising for community organizing also are presented, as are the ethical challenges that can arise in this work, and helpful tools for anticipating and addressing them. Also included are study questions for use in the classroom.
Many of the book’s contributors are leaders in their academic fields, from public health and social work, to community psychology and urban and regional planning, and to social and political science. One author was the 44th president of the United States, himself a former community organizer in Chicago, who reflects on his earlier vocation and its importance. Other contributors are inspiring community leaders whose work on-the-ground and in partnership with us “outsiders” highlights both the power of collaboration, and the cultural humility and other skills required to do it well.
Throughout this book, and particularly in the case studies and examples shared, the role of context is critical, and never far from view. Included here most recently are the horrific and continuing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a long overdue, yet still greatly circumscribed, “national reckoning with systemic racism,” in the aftermath of the brutal police killing of yet another unarmed Black person, and then another and another, seemingly without end. In many chapters, the authors highlight different facets of the Black Lives Matter movement that took on new life across the country and the world in response to these atrocities. In other chapters, the existential threat of climate change and grave threats to democracy also are underscored.
View the Table of Contents and introductory text for the supplementary instructor resources. (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/04143046/9781978832176_optimized_sampler.pdf)
Supplementary instructor resources are available on request: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/communityorganizing
About the Author
MEREDITH MINKLER is professor emerita in community health sciences in the School of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley, and the founding director of the university’s Center on Aging. A long time community organizer, she is the coauthor or editor of numerous books, including Community-Based Participatory Research: From Processes to Outcomes (with Nina Wallerstein).
PATRICIA WAKIMOTO is a researcher at the Nutrition Policy Institute at the University of California at Davis and has worked many years with diversity programs, community engagement and pipeline programs for youth.
Praise For…
"This volume is a must have for those studying and practicing community building and organizing. It offers an abundance of voices and an array of approaches for those engaged in the difficult task of transforming communities to provide healthy and equitable environments. Leading scholars and organizers share their knowledge and insights—we all can learn from them."
— Louise Simmons
"A fantastic book that provides extraordinary foundations for community engagement and mobilization in the pursuit of social justice. The voices from multiple scholars and community leaders invite us to embrace new ways of working for equity-focused systemic change in public health and beyond."
— Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz,
"This volume is a must have for those studying and practicing community building and organizing. It offers an abundance of voices and an array of approaches for those engaged in the difficult task of transforming communities to provide healthy and equitable environments. Leading scholars and organizers share their knowledge and insights—we all can learn from them."
— Louise Simmons
"A fantastic book that provides extraordinary foundations for community engagement and mobilization in the pursuit of social justice. The voices from multiple scholars and community leaders invite us to embrace new ways of working for equity-focused systemic change in public health and beyond."
— Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz,